This was one of my first coral bells, and I really like the look of it. Unfortunately, I found it very temperamental. It just sat when I planted it in a well-tended, mostly shaded, mulched bed on the southwest side of my house, and then after about a year it began to melt away (I had 5 of them planted there, and they all behaved the same way, more or less). I moved the 2 strongest remaining plants to the south east side, in similar soil/mulch, but with a bit more sun. It just sat. I finally dug I them when I moved from that house a year or so later, but they did not survive the transition to their new home. I am still baffled as to what wasn't right for them. Quite unfortunate as they are so beautiful.

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