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Products > Heuchera 'Canyon Pink'
 
Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' - Canyon Pink Coral Bells

Note: This plant is not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.  
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Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Perennial
Family: Saxifragaceae (Saxifrages)
Origin: California (U.S.A.)
California Native (Plant List): Yes
Evergreen: Yes
Flower Color: Rose Pink
Bloomtime: Spring/Summer
Parentage: (H. sanguinea x H. rubescens)
Height: 1 foot
Exposure: Cool Sun/Light Shade
Irrigation (H2O Info): Medium Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 0-10° F
Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' (Canyon Pink Coral Bells) - A low growing perennial with small gray mottled lobed leaves. The flowers are a rose pink with lighter centers with the bloom period from mid spring through early summer.

Plant in sun to light shade on the coast and in light shade inland and give regular to occasional irrigation - less so in shaded situations. It is cold hardy to around 0° F. A great small reliable Coral Bells that works well in bright shade to full sun such as along the dripline of our native coast live oaks.

Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' is an early hybrid created by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's legendary plant breeder Dara Emery who was breeding to develop small-leafed, compact Coral Bells with showy flowers and working with various California native species and crossing them with the showy Arizonia species Heuchera sanguinea. This hybrid is listed by some as being a cross between Heuchera elegans and Heuchera sanguinea, while others list it as involving Heuchera sanguinea and plants of the Heuchera rubescens complex. It was introduced by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden in 1985 as the first of the gardens Heuchera introductions and it remains as one of the best of the smaller Heuchera that we sell. One of the more recent Quartet Series Heuchera 'Canyon Melody' has 'Canyon Pink' as one parent.

In their book "Heuchera and Heucherellas: Coral Bells and Foamy Bells" Timber Press 2005 authors Dan Heims and Grahame Ware note that Linnaeus named Heuchera for Johann Heinrich von Heucher, professor of medicine and Botany at Wittenberg University and that the name Heuchera should be pronounced following this person's name that it commemorates, meaning it so be pronounced HOY-ker-uh, but like most people, we continue to pronounce it HUE-ker-ah.

More information on this plant can be found on the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' Plant Introduction Page

This information about Heuchera 'Canyon Pink' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.

 
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