Deep lilac-pink flowers; I-III; foliage dark green; height 15cm; spread 40cm.
This name was in use as early as 1838. Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset, England) used the name in the 1920s for a ‘very dark early’ cultivar. ‘Rubra’ may be synonymous with Erica carnea ‘Praecox Rubra‘ pre-1911; and also with Erica carnea ‘Vivellii’ (1906-1911).
Named after ruber = red.
White flowers; VIII-IX; foliage sage-green; habit compact; height 30cm; spread 45cm.
Perhaps from R. J. Brien (Pitcairngreen Heather Farm, Perthshire, Scotland); supplied to Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden, Wisley, by Barncroft Nurseries in 1989
Crimson flowers (H13); VIII-IX; foliage green tinged gold; habit broad, upright; height 45cm; spread 45cm.
Seedling; found in the garden at Scaynes Hill, West Sussex, England, before 1982 by a member of staff of Hardwicks Nurseries (Newick, Sussex, England).
Named after the village where it was found.
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.
