White flowers; VII-X; foliage bright green; habit erect; height 40cm; spread 65cm.
Seedling; found by Sir George Taylor in Major & Mrs G. Neil Collins’s garden at Inverchapel Lodge, Loch Eck, Scotland, in 1970.
Named after Major C. N. Collins’s wife.
Long racemes of lilac-pink flowers; VIII-IX; foliage dark green; habit upright; height 45cm; spread 55cm.
Seedling; found by B. G. (Jack) London (Taverham, Norwich, Norfolk, England) in 1971.
Named after Jack London; the name should not be rendered as ‘London’s Pride’.
Small, dark crimson flowers; IX-X; foliage orange turning red in winter; habit erect; height 30cm; spread 45cm.
Found by J. W. Sparkes (Beechwood Nursery, Beoley, Redditch, Worcestershire, England); introduced either by J. W. Sparkes or J. F. Letts about 1966.
Name is an allusion to the flowering time and flower colour, and to the foliage colour.
Flowers mauve (h2); VII-IX; foliage dark green; habit bushy; height 25cm; spread 45cm.
Seedling; found by Stanley Dawson in his garden at Sandal, Yorkshire, England, during the 1970s.
Named after finder’s wife.
Flowers pink; VI-IX; foliage grey; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 30cm.
In cultivation by 1874.
Named from mollis = soft
Flowers white; XII-II; calyx white with greenish tips; style slightly emergent, tinged pink or green at apex; anthers with vestigial spurs reduced to a tuft of minute hairs. Foliage bright green, with pale salmon-pink new growth.
Magenta (H14) flowers, I–IV; dark bronze-green and white variegated foliage; height 30cm; spread 50cm.
A sport of ‘Kramers Rote’ but with variegated green and white foliage especially in early summer. Not as vigorous as its parent, but one of the true variegated heathers; applied for pbr in January 2002 to CPVO; A. J. de Jong, Klazienaveen, Netherlands.
Name derivation unknown
Very variable bushy heath, usually with sharply pointed, rigid, linear leaves. Flower tubular, constricted slightly at mouth, from 1 to 2 cm long, varying from white to green, yellow, brown, pink, red or purple, sometimes bi-coloured; anthers without awns. Blooms most of the year.
Sources:
Ericas of South Africa (D.Schumann, G. Kirsten & E. G. H. Oliver) 1992: p. 52.
Four Sisters heath. Bears clusters of four flowers (hence the name) at tips of branchlets, each bloom with four spreading lobes, varying from pink to almost white, with a ring of darker pink or green at mouth; anthers without awns. Usually a strictly erect bushy heath to more than 1m tall, but sometime sprawling; flowering VIII-I in wild. A variable plant, found in damp habitats especially see pages.
Sources:
Ericas of South Africa (D.Schumann, G. Kirsten & E. G. H. Oliver) 1992: p. 92.
