"Trailing plants are making a resurgence for a good reason"

Terra Nova Nurseries is meeting market interest in trailing foliage by announcing three signature collections of heucherella and tiarella, spotlighting proven, 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 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 Nurseries, IncHeucherella 'Yellowstone Falls'

© Terra Nova Nurseries, IncHeucherella 'Redstone Falls'

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.

© Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc'Copper Cascade'

© Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc'Plum Cascade'

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. 'Plum Cascade'—also in the ascade Series—is Terra Nova's first purple trailer, featuring ruffled purple-silver leaves, small light-pink summer flowers on short stems, and a strong, tidy habit that flows over raised beds and retaining walls with a smooth, continuous sweep.

© Terra Nova Nurseries, IncTiarella 'Appalachian Trail'

© Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc'Happy Trails'

The Tiarella American Trails Series delivers shade-ready trailers bred for quick coverage and refined habit. Tiarella 'Appalachian Trail' 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.