One planting at Chanticleer in Pennsylvania featured only the dark wine foliage of Heuchera 'Chocolate Veil' and the Pulmonaria 'Excalibur' in a sumptuous tapestry of counterpoint. Pulmonaria do well in large containers but cannot be used in small ones as they resent drying out. Mediocre to good silver in the spotting, compact shape. Pulmonaria rubra 'Redstart' -a very good, almost over vigorous grower with large salmon bells. Pulmonaria rubra 'Bowle's Red'- similar to the above.
Foliage is muddy green with faint spotting.
Pulmonaria saccharata 'Sissinghurst White' - Nice white flowers, dull spotting. Pulmonaria longifolia 'E. Bertram Anderson'- small cobalt bells held tightly together over delicious dark green strap leaves. Brightly silver spotted. Looks poor at the end of blooming with a floppy form. A child of the above with broader leaves.