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.
‘Coloured tips on silver’. Pale purple flowers; VIII-IX; foliage downy, grey with coloured tips in spring, otherwise very similar to ‘Silver Knight‘. 35cm tall, 50cm spread.
Sport on ‘Silver Knight‘; introduced by Daystar (Litchfield, Maine, USA) in 1983.
Name alludes to the flower colour, and parent cultivar.
Synonym of Calluna vulgaris ‘Pennyacre Gold’
Foliage dirty green in a site facing East, where it gets morning sun only but in a position facing South, it is a bright terracotta in Spring and terracotta red in winter. The colour most noticeable in April and May.
Wild-collected sport; found on Collin Mountain near Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on St Patrick’s Day 1928 by Mr and Mrs J. W. Porter (Dundonald, County Down, Northern Ireland) as a sport on basal growth of a partly burnt plant.
Named after the patron saint of Ireland.
Bushy, medium-sized, erect shrub growing to an average height of 1.6m, but old specimens may reach up to 1.8m tall; 1-1.5m broad. The flowers are medium to dark pink (darker pink than ‘Tresco’ lighter than ‘Adonis’), tubular, 15mm long, 3mm diameter; umbellately arranged (3, mainly 4 flowered), on very short (3mm) lateral branches arising from the main stem, arranged in dense, whorled, pseudo-racemes below the ends of flowering branches. (Normally 3, occasionally 4 verticels per synflorescence)
The external morphology of the Dresden form is marginally different from the other Erica verticillata forms. The flowers are smaller and more congested, verticels fewer; non-flowering lateral branches are less ordered, normally arranged in single whorls or dispersed up the main stems and only a few are arranged in whorls of three (3-5) on the upper third of the stems.
Origins: This specimen comes from a small market garden nursery, Heidegartnerei Grunberg in Dresden, specializing in Erica. It is recorded at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens with the accession number, 14/2012 and cultivar ‘Dresden’. Herr Hemut Heidl bought it at a market in Berlin many years ago when Dresden was in East Germany. Cuttings were donated by Helmut Heidl GbR Wasserschwenden 3.87452 Altusried / Krugzell.Fax 0049 (0) 8374 – 23435 Web:www.hiedl-gbr.de. Landowner: N/A: Mail: hiedl-gbr@t-online.de. Landowner org: Heidegartnerei Grunberg. Landowner ph: 49 (03523) 71130 ® E.2018:01 registered on 10 April 2018 by Anthony Hitchcock Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens Nursery, Living Collections and Threatened Species Manager
This name contravenes the ICNCP (1995, Art. 27.3); the original name ‘Skone’ should be reinstated. NORDLICHT may be deemed a trade designation (Art. 11).
