Amazing Heaths & Heathers for your Garden

May 18, 2013

All through the year heaths and heather are blooming in our display gardens. And even when not in bloom, their foliage can take on dramatic shades of red, gold or lime green. These wonderful plants are relatively drought tolerant, are easy to grow and add interest all year long.

Heaths and Heather - Singing Tree Gardens

Genus: Erica
Species: x griffithsii
Valerie Griffiths

Really bright lemon-yellow foliage is why this heath is grown. The flowers add some color in late summer, but with the intensity of the foliage, it becomes one of the most noticed plants in the gardens. It is sheared to keep the nice mounded shape, and is combined with plants of contrasting foliage like in this photo, near Berberis thunbergii 'Helmond Pillar'.

Heath
Type:
  Evergreen
Bloom Time:
  July - Oct
Color:
  Lemon Yellow
Exposure:
  Full Sun
Size in 10 yrs:
  18" x 30"
Hardiness:
  to zone 6
Growth Habit:
  Mounding

Valerie Griffiths