Glossy green to ruby red foliage on compact clumps. USE Popular weed-smothering ground cover for front of border or in rock gardens. Glossy foliage useful in arrangements. Use 3 to 4 plants per square yard. Give extra water if hot and dry.
Foliage becomes ruby-bronze in cool weather.
Remove spent flowers. Divide in spring if overcrowded in 3 to 4 years. Bergenia is named for an 18th century botanist, Karl August von Bergen. Bressingham Ruby ' was raised by Alan Bloom and has the most colorful leaves he has ever seen on a Bergenia. Plants in this family have broad, oval, leathery and evergreen leaves which arise from a strong, creeping rhizome.