Purple Bell Heather

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Dainty, bright purple flowers attract butterflies and contrast with dark green foliage. Can be planted with other heather varieties to form an outstanding knot garden that provides year-round flowers and foliage.

Companion Plants

Burning Bush

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Burning Bush

Best known for brilliant fall color, this popular landscape shrub is impossible to miss once the leaves change in autumn. Striking fall foliage is nicely offset by blue-foliaged plants, chrysanthemum and aster. Use for hedge, screen, accent and specimen.

Viburnum

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Viburnum

Adaptable and dependable four-season garden interest. Most viburnum offer large flowers that attract butterflies, thick summer foliage, and berries and vibrant fall foliage that attract birds. Nice with fir, rhododendron, crocosmia and variegated periwinkle. Prefers well-drained soil.

Bearberry Cotoneaster

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Bearberry Cotoneaster

This spreading shrub has graceful, arching branches that are low-growing and readily root themselves to the ground. Well-suited for ground cover, erosion control or planting in large groups. Prefers well-drained soil.

Details

Common name

Purple Bell Heather

Botanical name

Erica cinerea

Zone

USDA 6 - 8

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Bloom color

Purple

Bloom time

summer-fall

Light

sun

Height

9-12" (23-31 cm)

Habit

mounded

Water

1-2 times per week

Feed

use acidic

Maintenance

protect from standing water in winter