Flowers small, lilac pink above (Hll), fading almost to white underneath; VII-VIII; foliage sometime plain green, some leaves pale yellow, others yellow underneath or yellow at tips, yellow colouring appears on sides of shoots but not in any regular manner but looking as if the shoots are “sun burnt”. Leaves small, largest to 0.4cm long, less than 0.1cm across, with tightly recurved margins so that lower surface is not visible, with woolly hairs on upper side, without marginal cilia or with a few only towards tip. Hairs not glandular. Stems with short woolly hairs; habit low-growing, somewhat sprawling; height 10cm.
Collected by Aidan Brady on Achill Island, Ireland, in August 1969, and since then cultivated at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Registered 7 November 1998: E. C. Nelson, Tippitiwitchet Cottage, Hall Road, Outwell, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE14 8PE, England.
Heathers
‘Celtic Snow’
Flowers white, in one-sided racemes to 3.5cm long, pedicels light green; VII-X; new foliage light green throughout the year, mature foliage mid-green throughout the year; habit prostrate spreading; height 7cm; spread 45cm; stems light green, hoary ageing to brown, glabrous.
Wild-collected; found by David McLaughlin (Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland) on The Sky Road, Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, in August 1991; named and introduced by David McLaughlin. Registered 14 September 1998: D. McLaughlin, 51 Glenpark Road, Omagh, County Tyrone BT79 7SS, Northern Ireland.
The names of David McLaughlin’s Daboecia selections all start with the word Celtic; snow refers to the flower colour.
‘Anita Lillie’
Flowers in racemes to 5cm long, magenta (H14), pedicels red; VI-VIII; new foliage pink in Spring turning yellow then red, mature foliage light green in Summer, mid-green at other seasons; habit compact spreading; height 15cm; spread 30cm; stems red ageing to brown, glabrous. Sport on Erica cinerea ‘Purple Beauty‘ found in 1995 at Summerhill Nursery, Frensham, Surrey, England, by Mrs Anita Lillie Austin. Registered 24 August 1998: Mrs A. L. Austin, 68 Birch Road, Headley Down, Bordon, Hampshire GU35 8BW, England.
‘Sun Cushion’
Flowers rose-pink (H7); VII-XI; foliage golden in Summer deepening to orange in winter; habit compact spreading; height 20cm; spread 70cm. Sport on Erica cinerea ‘Pink Ice‘ found in 1992 at Carn Nurseries by Pat Glass, originally given the illegitimate name Erica cinerea ‘Golden Wonder’. Registered 20 January 1998: P. Glass, Carn Nurseries, 58 Tirkane Road, Maghera, Co. Derry BT46 SAG, Northern Ireland.
‘Denkewitz’
Foliage lime-green with copper tips in Spring. A selection made by J. Hachmann (Barmstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) by 2000.
‘Winter Rubin’
Flowers deep clear pink: II-IV: foliage dark green: height 10-15cm: spread 26-30cm. Compact plant similar to Erica carnea ‘Lohse’s Rubin‘ but has less blue in flower colour. Selected from seedlings of ‘Myretoun Ruby‘ by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany). This is a legitimate replacement name for ‘Kramer’s Rubin‘ requested by the introducer.
‘Helen Nicol’
Flowers single, calyx yellow, corolla white: VI-VIII: foliage bright green: habit spreading: height 20cm: spread 40cm. Found as a seedling, by Mr Nicol in July 1984 at MarkHill, Glenapp, Ballantrae, Ayrshire, Scotland, and named after his wife. Registered 1 November 1995: Robert D. W. Nicol, Stranraer, Wigtownshire DG9 OBG.
‘Ogmund’
Flower pedicels and sepals dark red, corolla bicoloured, amethyst (HI) at base shading to white and back to amethyst at lobes: VII-VIII: foliage dark green with mid-green tips in spring: habit open, upright: height 20cm: spread 15-20cm. Found as a seedling by Mrs Petterssen in July 1993 on the island of Misje, west of Bergen, Norway. Named after her late friend, the poet Olav H. Hauge (d. 1994) who wrote “Ogmund rides home”. Ogmund was a 13th century merchant-venturer from Mrs Petterssen’s village who became a Crusader in Jerusalem. Registered 10 October 1995: Mrs E. B. Petterssen, Otervei 16, 5045 Skjoldtun, Norway.
‘Sidney Spicer’
Flowers lavender (H3), single: VII-VIII: foliage summer yellow/ green: habit prostrate . Found growing in the centre of a pot of Calluna vulgaris ‘White Lawn’ but it proved impossible to determine if it was a sport or a seedling. Registered 22 September 1995: Mrs W. E. S. Bamford, Haythorne Nursery, Verwood, Dorset.
‘Brian Bamford’
Flowers single, with normal style and stamens, corolla shading from mauve (H2) at base to amethyst (HI) at tip, calyx deep red: foliage mid-green: also produces tufts of “wheat-ears” comprising 12-16 deep red bracts, 2.7 – 3.5mm long x 1.6-2.3mm wide habit upright, 30cm or more tall.
Found in Ringwood Forest in 1982.
Registered no. 136. 22 September 1995: Mrs W. E. S. Bamford, Haythorne Nursery, Verwood, Dorset. {Yb Heather Soc. 1996: 60.}