Heuchera help please

Last year I dug up my Lavenders from the raised Kitchen patio beds because they grew huge and splayed out looking unsightly.

In their placeI replanted with some Heucheras....but they have now done exactly the same and look awful. I have these plants all over my garden but none ever look as bad as these. Should I divide and replant now at this time of year and if so should their blooms be cut off ( such a shame).

Also in the same border I planted some Rock Roses and they have grown madly too and look very unruly . I'm really not keen on messy looking plants and I grew these for the first time last year, but didn't realise how sprawling and untidy looking they are.

I'm obviously going very wrong somewhere.....please advise me someone..help!!

 

Cant say I've seen a heuchera do that before I don't think you are doing anything wrong other than may of planted to close and they are fighting for the room, or the weather has contributed to it.

 

OK thanks @Perki

 

Leaky sewage pipe under the bed I reckon.

 

Hi,
Ours do something like that at times.
We just break off those new young shoots in the center with as much stem and root as possible and repot or replant them in the garden, most seem to root and regrow quiet easily anytime.
The motherplant like yours is now, seems to get too woody so we usually remove and replace with some of the rooted offsets.

You can keep a Lavender in that space if you carefully prune it after flowering.
Don't forget to flower well, Lavenders prefer it dry and almost no feeding.
There a a few smaller varieties as well.
Lavender - Dwarf

Do you regularly water and feed that border ?
Perhaps you are being too kind to them particulalry if using a feed high in Nitrogen which encourages leafy growth ?

 

I have an unruly Heuchera but as the season progresses the leaves get bigger and hide the sprawling stems so that eventually it looks all right (to me anyway ...)

I have a rock rose but have to keep cutting it back with a shears, and it tends to behave for a while and then I cut it back again. It never produces many flowers probably for that reason.
I think they like poor soil so maybe it is too rich in that bed. It may grow better for you in a different position.

 

No @ricky101 I don't feed it at all and very rarely water it.
I do take loads of pieces from all my Heucheras and pot them up....I'm running out of space as I just can't bring myself to throw healthy plants away!!!

The 3 Lavenders were replanted in another area and are absolutely fine. I have it all over the garden ...plus loads of rooted cutting in pots too...I just can't resist taking cuttings.

Those 3 Heucheras were tiny new plants last year and yes you're right they are woody now!!!

 

Thanks Michael. Do you think it's the right time to chop it a bit, It's really an eyesore looking out on to it from our kitchen patio doors.

I do have some rock roses planted out in a couple of borders and they are half the size of the ones in the raised patio beds.
They've bloomed well this year so I will give them a light trim tomorrow and see how they look.

 

I don't know about the Heuchera, I just leave them alone.
The Rock rose will probably bounce back but may take a while to flower because it needs to grow new shoots. I usually trim it in the spring but it always becomes straggly again later on. They prefer poor soil.

 

Ok Michael thanks.

I'll attempt a makeover tomorrow, it's driving me nuts sitting here looking at it.