Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Black Pearl Coral Bells is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

Ornamental Qualities

Black Pearl Coral Bells features dainty spikes of white bell-shaped flowers with pink calyces rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive glossy lobed leaves emerge burgundy in spring | turning black in color with curious plum purple undersides the rest of the year.

Planting and Growing

Black Pearl Coral Bells will grow to be about 10 inches tall at maturity extending to 20 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 26 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 20 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.

This plant performs well in both full sun and full shade. However | you may want to keep it away from hot | dry locations that receive direct afternoon sun or which get reflected sunlight | such as against the south side of a white wall. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider covering it with a thick layer of mulch in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun to shade

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 10"(20"withtheflowers)Hx26"W

Flowers are white

Flowers in mid summer

Attracts hummingbirds

Zone 4a

Likes average to moist soil