Amethyst(H1) flowers; VII-IX; foliage light green; habit open erect; height 30cm; spread 30cm. Less floriforous and taller than ‘Maxchan’. Of French descent.
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‘Maxchan’
Flowers amethyst (H1); VI-IX; foliage dark green, habit erect; height 20cm; spread 40cm. French origin.
‘Columbia’
Flowers bright pink; XII-IV; foliage green; habit dwarf with needle-like leaves; height 40-60 cms, spread 40-60 cms.
‘Torero’
Flowers mauve to heliotrope (H2 / H12) in spikes to 8cm long, corolla urn-shaped, to 7mm long, maximum width 5mm; calyx dark mauve, to 4mm long; anthers very dark red, fully emergent; II-IV; foliage dark green above, pale green below, to 9mm long, linear; habit upright; height to 45cm tall; spread 35cm after 5 years (not pruned). Differs from ‘Kramers Rote’, more upright habit and more “red”.
Deliberately raised seedling, cross made by Johannes van Leuven in February 2008; selected February 2010; EU-Sortenschutz SR-2 (Torero).
Named after a bullfighter. registered on 6th April 2015 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern, Germany.
® E.2015:02. registered on 6th April 2015 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern, Germany.
‘Ramona’ {Irish Princess®}
Flowers violet; VII-X; foliage light green; habit broadly upright; height to 50cm; spread to 50cm after 4 years (pruned). More vigorous than ‘Vanessa’ with flowers in loose spike.
Deliberately raised seedling by Johannes van Leuven, selected in September 2013. Registered on 13 July 2015 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern-Lüllingen, Germany. ® D.2015:03.
‘Annika’ {Irish Princess®}
Flowers pink; VII-X; foliage light green; habit broadly upright; height to 50cm; spread to 50cm after 4 years (pruned). More vigorous than ‘Rosella’ with flowers in loose spike. Deliberately raised seedling by Johannes van Leuven, selected in September 2013; from an unnamed seedling × ‘Maja’.
Registered on 13 July 2015 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern-Lüllingen, Germany. ® D.2015:02.
‘Tina’ {Irish Princess®}
Flowers red; VII-X; foliage light green; habit broadly upright; height to 50cm; spread 50cm after 4 years (pruned). Deliberately raised seedling by Johannes van Leuven, selected in September 2013.
Registered on 13 July 2015 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern-Lüllingen, Germany.® D.2015:01. Named after his future daughter-in-law, Christina Schönmakers.
‘Stefanie’
White flowers; IX-XI; foliage bright gren; habit compact upright; height 25cm; spread 35cm. A deliberate cross between ‘Hammondii‘ and ‘Long White‘. Raised and selected by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany) in 1984; introduced by Kurt Kramer 1992. Fancy name, not named after anyone in particular.
‘Yellow Carvel’
White flowers; VIII-IX; foliage a good deep yellow; habit erect; height 20cm; spread 45cm. It was found as a seedling by John Proudfoot in his nursery garden at Melven in 1989.
‘Red Hackle’
Flowers ruby (H5); VIII-IX; foliage gold; habit erect; height 30cm; spread 45cm. The erect habit helps to make it a striking plant. It was found as a seedling in 1989 in his nursery garden by John Proudfoot of Methven. Perthshire.