Just like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! And silver lining to boot!
The minis are adorable....maybe it is the angle of the shot, but it looks like mini heuchie, as it grows, might cover the mini hosta or is it too a slow grower?

You sure lucked in with beautiful looking plants at this time of year, Esther!

Enjoy..:-)

Jo

Jo, the mini-heuchie "Peppermint" is rated at 8" diameter when mature, which this specimen is. It was the smallest mature diameter of the mini-heuchies I ordered (others were rated at 9" or 10" at maturity), and that is why I used THAT one in the hosta pot plot. Besides, its color was a perfect contrast to the green/gold or green/white of the hostas in the pot.

I would hope that the hostas, planted near the edge of the pot, would grow outward as necessary. It's an experiment. If it works, great. Otherwise, I will do necessary tweaking next summer.

During the winter, I will put extra mulch on top of the cuties and wrap the entire pot well with bubble wrap, so no moisture leaks in for freeze/thaw problems.

I have several heucheras and really like them a lot...I haven't seen miniatures around here so will have to keep an eye out for them in the spring, especially Sugar Berry.

That's a good point you made about planting the hosta near the edge of the pot to encourage the hosta growing outward. I also meant to comment earlier about the colour of Peppermint echoing the pot colour. It's very pretty!

It looks like you'll be able to enjoy your new babies for a while....they look as fresh as if it were summer! :-). My BME and HME are still going strong, but CC is done for the season.

Great job, Esther. Those are very nice, healthy-looking plants. I have a few spots where mini-heuchies would fit perfectly. I'm checking those out for sure.

Thanks for sharing.

Don B.

The Adventures of a Hosta Gardener in NYC, with a triumphant ending. No plastic windmill in sight. I love it.

Steve

I have all the little cuties. Sugar Berry, for me, is larger than the other two but beautiful. It is second from the left in the photo. My Frost heuchera was eaten by rabbits in spring so is recovering under a cage in the picture and the two green ones are peppermint which I split and moved after I took this picture (late May). I will do the same to others next spring. If it stops raining, I'll try to take fall pictures.
Enjoy your new plants; looks like a great pick-me-up.
Beverly

BEVERLY--Is the bright chartreuse one Sweet Tart? What about the red one immediately to its right (Coco?) and the little reddish one all the way to the right? Is that Blondie? If so, yours look better than the pics on the nursery's page. If they're trying to sell these, they should use YOUR pics!

Yes, the one to the right is sweet tart, then the red one is Blonde, then Gingersnap. Blonde is very red in spring. Coco is behind Sugar Berry. When I purchased the group, Gingersnap was the smallest but it has gained size. Sweet Tart had pretty flowers and was very vigorous. I bought three of those this year for my heuchera-loving sister this year as a thank you for watering plants while I was traveling. It is real a show stopper. The one heuchera to the left of Sugar Berry is a division of an old variety, silver scrolls.

This picture shows the bright flowers of Sweet Tart. Picture taken August 12th. (my camera is out of power, when the battery is recharged I can put fall color pictures up.)

BEVERLY--I should have bought Sweet Tart & Blondie when I had a chance to do so last week. The nursery website pics of them are UGLY and so I didn't want them. Now, of course, they're sold out til next year. I will be keeping my eye out for more Lil Cuties to see if they develop downsized versions of other favorite heuchies. I don't want full sized heuchies blocking the public view of my hostas!

fall colors

"The Adventures of a Hosta Gardener in NYC"

Steve, that would be a helluva good name for a blog. : )

Don B.

DON B -- Oh, you mean digging up the raw turf by back-breaking hand, schlepping about 600 lbs. of topsoil in 30 lb. bags for my garden and the Neighbor's Plot, having to impress upon the 20s-something son of the Chinese Upstairs Next Door Neighbor why it's not cool to litter the sidewalk and porch with cigarette butts (maybe gathering them and putting them on his porch gave him a hint?), having to endure kitschy plastic pinwheels and 99 cent store wooden signs ("Garden!", "Spring!") put into new Neighbor's Plot garden, having a beautiful white limestone rock STOLEN from hosta tree garden, having nearly every passer-by praising the gardens, having the "landscape workers" trample fencing, plants and I.D. tags, having to cover the "dangerous" sharp edge of the Adirondack fencing with split foam tubing, having to replace the "dangerous" wrought-iron trellis for my clematis with swim noodles mounted on bamboo stakes, having my hosta garden plowed under by a vicious co-op manager for no reason, having to bump out an extension, apply topsoil and all the other goodies, plant, and water a new place for my hosta by cover of night----you mean THAT blog??

Don't have time for that blog--too busy living it!

That's it. That's it!. The rest of us have to deal with mundane things like slugs and voles. You have to deal with angry, vengeful, stupid and disrespectful mammals on two feet. Much more interesting. I think it's a Hosta Journal article in the making.

Steve

This post was edited by steve_mass on Mon, Oct 21, 13 at 8:37

STEVE, I think if a slug or vole dared to show up, I'd crush it with my bare hands from sheer frustration after all the garbage pitched at me by hoo-mans. I don't think my hostas suffered much from slugs this summer, I sprinkled slug-pellets around. Definitely no mouse/vole damage. Too many neighborhood stray cats for them to survive long.