How to get your Brazen Raisin?

Written by: Siri Wilbur

For starters, let me share with you what it is. It is one of my favorite species of what I grew up knowing as Coral Bells (Huechera) which my Nana always had in her garden. They are not big showy flowers but delicate plumes or panicles from pale pink to shades of coral. The color of the panicles all depend on the variety you grow. This year’s WGC plant sale will have the very new variety from Proven Winners™.

This plant will be my favorite investment in the garden this summer. It will add a dramatic splash of dark purplish black foliage to any combination of containers and landscapes with the new Medium to large size, flat, matte textured leaves with wine red undersides form a dense mound.

In midsummer, deep red scapes carry showy panicles of hot pink buds which open to pale pink to white flowers with a hot pink base. From a distance, the flowers appear like a light pink cloud floating above the nicely contrasting dark foliage. This plant occasionally reblooms into fall.

Coral bells are easy to grow and blend easily with most other perennials in the landscape. Because of their low, mounding habit, they are often used as edging along paths or in containers.

Plant them anywhere, they’re easy!

It’s a Best Seller, Foliage Interest, Winter Interest. It attracts butterflies and Hummingbirds yet resists deer and its even native to North America!

Bring the whole family to the Windham Garden Club annual plant sale on Saturday May 21st from 9:30-1pm at the Windham Town Hall, plants are available on a first come first serve basis so come early for the best selection! There will be Coral Bells available as well as a host of other varieties that grow well in our climate. Check out the plant list below which shows just some of what we will have for sale! Also visit our website: windhamgardenclub.com and like us on Facebook!

AQUILEGIA 'Blue Bird' - Songbird Series

ASTER KICKIN® 'Carmine Red'

ASTILBE 'Fanal' (red)

BRUNNERA m. 'Jack Frost' PP13859 CPBR1799

CAMPANULA p. Takion Series - Blue

CLEMATIS r. SERIOUS BLACK™

COREOPSIS 'Red Elf' PPAF - LI'L BANG™ Series

DICENTRA spectabilis

ECHINACEA 'Julia' PP24629

GAILLARDIA a. 'Arizona Apricot'

GERANIUM s. 'New Hampshire Purple'

HEUCHERA DOLCE® BRAZEN RAISIN™

HOSTA 'Blue Mouse Ears'

INCARVILLEA delavayi

LEUCANTHEMUM s. AMAZING DAISIES™

LYCHNIS a. 'Orange Gnome'

MONARDA 'Leading Lady Lilac' PPAF CPBRAF

PAEONIA 'Victoire de la Marne' (dbl red)

PAPAVER o. 'Beauty of Livermore'

PHLOX p. 'Glamour Girl' PP25778 (coral pink)

PHLOX p. 'Shockwave' PP23265 CPBR4949 (Pink)

SALVIA n. COLOR SPIRES® 'Violet Riot' PP26273

SEMPERVIVUM 'Red Beauty