There have been several discussions here this spring re which heucheras do well and under what conditions. I've mentioned several times that the dark purple ones seem to do best for me, and they seem to like a fair bit of sun. This past week I bought 6 more and, while planting them yesterday and this morning (two still to be planted - in pots by the front steps, to be planted in the ground at the end of the summer...) it finally dawned on me (DUH!) that dark purple heucheras have become a color theme threaded through the front beds! They seem to go well with everything and most do well, although there have been a few losses now and then. Some pictures (not very good ones I'm afraid!) from this morning:

Dark heucheras are becoming a groundcover under the Chinese wisteria 'tree'. Unfortunately they aren't big enough to hide dying tulip foliage! :-) You can see that the Henryi clematises that grow into the wisteria are getting ready to bloom at the base of the tree - they grow all the way to the top of the tree too. Unfortunately, when the new long, whippy wisteria growths get pruned off, so does any clematis growth tangled up in it, so there are not as many clematis flowers on the top of the tree as I hoped there'd be! The heucheras under there are a mixed group and include 'Rachel' (that one spreads a fair bit and is more green-brown than purple), 'Midnight Rose', 'Blackout', and 'Coco' - there's probably a few more in there too!

Looking behind the wisteria while standing on the road, you can see there are also dark heucheras (especially 'Midnight Ruffles') in the small bed directly behind the wisteria, plus a newly-planted 'Magnum' in the big front bed. There are also a couple near there in the 'moat bed' but they aren't very visible in this picture:

In the front bed a little to the right of the above picture, you can see another purple heuchera, and see that it goes nicely with the peonies just finishing blooming deeper in the bed. After this picture was taken, I added another 'Magnum' into the rather bare-looking place on the far left!:

Continuing along the moat and front beds, you can see a few more at the Japanese wisteria end of the bed:

I also have some purple ones in the bed on the south side of the driveway and plan to add more there too. Clearly I'm a sucker for dark purple!