Lavender flowers, VIII–IX; yellow-orange foliage, tinted red and bronze becoming redder in winter; dwarf, spreading; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling found by R. J. Brien (Pitcairngreen Heather Farm, Perth, Scotland) by 1985.
Named after R. (Bob) J. Brien’s youngest grand-daughter.
Flowers rose-pink (H7) to heliotrope (H12) in terminal racemes, 20–30 per cluster; IV:VI and often also IX;XI; foliage dark green almost spirally arranged or in disarticulated whorls of 3 or 4; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 30cm.
Another (nursery code 04-59-6) of the seedlings raised by Kurt Kramer in 2004 from unnamed “pink” seedling of Erica manipuliflora deliberately pollinated by an unnamed “crimson” seedling of Erica spiculifolia.
This name is chosen as the German equivalent of carillon, a musical instrument comprising a collection of at least 23 bells.
® DME 2018–05: Registered 29 September 2018, by E C Nelson, England.
See The June 2019 RHS publication The Plantsman for more details.
Amethyst (H1) schizopetalous flowers; VII-VIII; dark green foliage. ‘W. G. Notley‘ is a greatly improved variety.
Wild-collected; found by Miss Winifred Whitley (Broadstone, Dorset, England) by 1933, and introduced by Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone) in 1934. It was stated then to be a hybrid between E. cinerea and E. [i.e. Calluna] vulgaris.
Named after Miss Whitley, the discoverer of this plant.
Salmon-pink(H15) flowers in profusion; VII-VIII; foliage dense dark green. Best regarded as a dwarf variant of ‘C. G. Best‘. 15cm tall, 40cm spread.
Possible seedling; introduced by G. M. Post (Singerskamp, Laren, Netherlands) by 1939. It is now thought to be extinct.
Derivation not known.
Note: A clone widely grown under this name has magenta (H14) flowers in profusion, June-Sept, with dark green foliage; an outstanding plant with a compact, spreading habit (see Small & Small (1998)). This clone is now named ‘Rosy Chimes‘.
Purple flowers; VII-IX; foliage dark green. Dense upright growth. 25cm tall, 60cm spread.
Listed by Barncroft Nurseries (Longsdon, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England) by 1991.
Name derivation not known, but most unlikey to be named after the American plant collector.
Flowers rose pink (H7). Indistinguishable from ‘Next Best‘.
Sport on ‘C. G. Best‘; found at R. Warner’s Barncroft Nurseries (Longsdon, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England); introduced by Barncroft Nurseries by 1985.
Named after the lane in Longsdon, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where Barncroft Nurseries are situated.
Because this is indistinguishable from ‘Next Best‘, the latter name has priority; see ICNCP (1995, Art. 2. 18).
Cerise (H6) flowers, June-Oct, with dark green foliage. Compact habit. 20cm tall, 40cm spread.
Seedling; found by Don Richards in his garden (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England) by 1973. Introduced by G. Yates (Far Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria) in 1980.
Name, brick, refers to the flower colour.
Flowers red, large: I-IV; foliage dark green; habit bushy; 18in × 24in.
Named by David Wilson from cuttings given by Kurt Kramer
Flowers white with no emergent style-tip; VIII-X; foliage green with yellow tips until the autumn; habit spreading.
Artificially created hybrid from Erica tetralix ‘Alba’ x Erica mackayana ‘Shining Light’ made in 2005 by J. Baron. The first white-blossomed clone of Praeger’s heath known.
Named after Bolster, a Dutch term for a bog containing “grey peat”.
Flowers in terminal umbel; VI-X; corolla white; ovary pale green, cylindrical, with uneven covering (mainly around upper part) of short hairs; anthers pale tan, with prominent awns; nectary ring green; habit bushy, low-growing heather, with pronounced tendency to produce “discoloured” (yellow) branchlets that gradually turn green; retains yellow (dis)colouring into late summer; long cilia (hairs) on margins of leaves and sepals usually not gland-tipped.
This is only the second clone of Praeger’s heath known to have white flowers (see Heathers 9: 76 (2012); Ericultura 163: 14 (2011)).
The origin of this clone is not known. It has been grown in Connemara by Susie and Alan Kay from material given to Susie Kay by Dr John Griffiths, and in Norfolk by Dr E. C. Nelson.
® DME 2018-04 registered on 26 August 2018 by Susie Kay.
