Saddled with a name that fails to glide off the tongue, heuchera (pronounced HEW-ker-ah) is a family of plants that deserves better recognition for adaptability to our climate and soils ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — What would happen if you mixed '"Big Top Caramel Apple" with "Ka-Pow Soft Pink", add a splash of "Beefeater" and "Rock 'N Grow Back in Black?" No, it's not a new cocktail.

There are overtones of caramel, they also noted. Not even two Colorado winters could take a bite out of these. Contending with shade in your garden? This plant will do. Early in the summer ...

A compact, clump-forming variety with purple silvery-grey leaves and upright stems which produce panicles of small bell-shaped, red to pink flowers from late spring to early summer ...

A compact, mound-forming, semi-evergreen to evergreen perennial with rounded, glossy, lobed, reddish-purple leaves with dark purple veins and slender, upright stems bearing small, bell-shaped, white ...