Dolce Peach Melba Bells

Other Names: Coralbells, Alumroot

Description:

Dainty spikes of cream colored bells rise from a compact mound of tan to peach-pink foliage, color is more orange as season progresses with dark coppery-orange veins, amazing contrast to other plants; keep soil moist in the heat of summer

Ornamental Features:

Dolce Peach Melba Bells features dainty spikes of creamy white bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer. It's attractive crinkled lobed leaves emerge tan in spring, turning peach in colour with distinctive coppery-bronze veins the rest of the year. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Dolce Peach Melba 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.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. It is a good choice for attracting hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Dolce Peach Melba Bells is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• Groundcover
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Dolce Peach Melba Bells will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity extending to 15 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 15 inches. 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.

This perennial performs well in both full sun and full shade. 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 zones. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.