Terra Nova Nurseries supports trailing-plant trend with 3 series
Terra Nova Nurseries announced it is supporting a wave of interest in trailing foliage with three collections of heucherella and tiarella.
Interest in the trailing habit continues to climb among finishing growers, retailers, landscape designers and home gardeners, reflecting growing demand for reliable spillers and tidy, cohesive ground coverage in real-world plantings.
Terra Nova is meeting the momentum by promoting back-by-popular-demand cultivars defined by a pronounced cascade and consistent performance from production and retail through landscape establishment and maturity. These trailing heucherella and tiarella selections reflect Terra Nova’s performance-focused breeding and emphasis on consumer-desired traits, delivering dependable rooting, sustained shelf life and quick establishment. They also offer a rich foliage palette for multi-season plantings in sun or shade, including dry shade beneath deciduous trees such as oaks, ashes, maples and beeches.
“Trailing plants are making a resurgence for good reason,” said Chuck Pavlich, director of new product development at Terra Nova Nurseries. “Used thoughtfully, trailing heucherella and tiarella can add soft edges to stonework, provide gentle spill in containers and baskets, knit together as low groundcover on slopes and borders — making them versatile choices across many climates and garden styles.”
Terra Nova offers six standouts across three featured series: Heucherella Falls, Heucherella Cascade and Tiarella American Trails.
The heucherella Falls Series showcases vigorous trailers lauded for shifting seasonal color and broad adaptability. Heucherella ‘Yellowstone Falls’ offers chartreuse, lobed leaves with deep crimson veining and stems that can trail up to three feet, creating a cohesive surface on gentle slopes that visually unifies the grade.
Heucherella ‘Redstone Falls’ displays ruby-splashed, butterfly-like foliage that warms through the year, elegantly integrating into mixed borders where it threads color between upright grasses and structural perennials.
The heucherella Cascade Series includes ‘Copper Cascade,’ a small-leaf trailer with rosy copper-gold foliage that holds its color year-round and drapes cleanly—ideal for spilling from window boxes and balcony planters. ‘Copper Cascade’, in comparison with ‘Redstone Falls’, sits lower, carries more flexible stems, shows smaller leaves, and presents a rosier, more saturated palette.
The Tiarella American Trails series delivers shade-ready trailers bred for quick coverage and refined habit. Tiarella ‘Appalachian Trail’ (top photo) forms a fast, well-mannered carpet with boldly splattered foliage and short white flowers, well-matched for edging woodland paths and stepping-stone runs. Tiarella ‘Happy Trails’ also produces abundant runners for cohesive coverage; its compact, rounded lobes with a distinctive dark vein band and subtle blooms shine when underplanting with shrubs and roses.
Photos courtesy of Terra Nova Nurseries.
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