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Aug 11, 2016 2:31 PM CST
Name: UrbanWild
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Kentucky - Plant Hardiness Zone 7a
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I'm pretty much a newbie to Heuchera. I had previously only seen the single specimen at my folks' house. I did take note that it was VERY popular with native pollinators so I am looking at getting some established here. After gawking at the photos in this forum, I'm sold! The colors are terrific....foliage and flowers. So, if I were to plan a bed, can I stagger blooming times to stretch it out for the pollinators or do they all flower in roughly the same period?
The place I have earmarked for a bed is mainly dry with harder soil. I'll add compost. I need something shorter as I'm trying to do something with the strip where all of the house meters are...so a meter reader will need to access. Don't like mowing it and too close to street for vegetables, so pollinator effort is the thrust.

BTW, would like plants from sources which do not use neonics on their plants/seeds.
Always looking for interesting plants for pollinators and food! Bonus points for highly, and pleasantly scented plants.

"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit." [“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero in Ad Familiares IX, 4, to Varro. 46 BCE
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