Among the earliest of the new breed of coral bells was a cultivar called Palace Purple, which had large bronzy-red and purple leaves and white flowers on 18-inch stems.

Beautiful as it is, I still use Palace Purple mostly in the background or foreground to highlight more brightly colored flowers and plants.

Palace Purple is a hybrid of Heuchera micrantha.

A few clumps of bronze-leaf coralbells (Heuchera micrantha "Palace Purple") are struggling.

I may just have to be content with hostas, heuchere Palace Purple, caladiums and other plants that I grow not for their flowers but for their colorful foliage.

Several varieties, including Palace Purple and Pewter Moon, are grown primarily for their deep maroon or maroon and silver foliage.

One of the fancy-leave forms, Palace Purple, was the Perennial of the Year in 1993.

As with Palace Purple, Plum Pudding produces airy flower spikes.

Whatever its ancestry, Palace Purple is indispensable in the well-furnished garden.

Hopefully they will not prove as floppy as those of Palace Purple.