Coral Bells Fire Alarm

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Landscape Qualities

Fire Alarm 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

Fire Alarm Coral Bells features dainty spikes of pink bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage in early summer. Its attractive tomentose lobed leaves emerge crimson in spring | turning orange in color with distinctive dark red veins. The foliage often turns crimson in fall.

Planting and Growing

Fire Alarm Coral Bells will grow to be about 9 inches tall at maturity extending to 14 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 14 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 12 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.

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