Hey everyone ! Need to this site. I came here for answers, advice, and overall knowledge from the gardeners here. Last year I picked up 3 different varieties of heucherella. I am zone 7b ( Philadelphia) we had a harsh winter with tons of snow. They came back amazing which seems like an accomplishment being that it seems lots of people struggle with this plant. In the pictures you will see how well they did. I know they like the location and the soil. These are all in the same bed with same amount of sunlight. For some reason only one of my peach teas took off while the other two have been struggling. They are clearing alive and both are even trying to bloom! How can I help them to recover to look like my others ? Hoping some veterans know a trick or two they can tell me!

new member! I have a couple of suggestions; there are root-eating maggot larvae in the potting mix or the potting mix in those two is pure peat and has not hydrated - bone dry now and the plants just can't survive. At this point you don't have much to lose so I would dig them up and gently bare-root them. This way you get rid of any larvae and also the bone-dry peat mix

Sadly it seems to happen with these plants more then others. I agree with what was stated about checking roots and soil , I would also cut off bloom stalks of the weak ones and let them put there growth into roots. Use light fertilizer like fish emulsion.

JSheridan,

I agree with the above suggestions as well, and will add the following comment - I ALWAYS bare root new Heuchera/Heucherella varieties as soon as I get them home. I use hose to wash all the soil off, cut back some of their top growth, and then plant them in a suitable location based upon their sun tolerance, with compost to amend the soil. Then they should be mulched in late fall to prevent heaving. I still loose a few here and there, but my luck is much better since I started doing this.

Good luck!

Jen