♤ Bud-blooming; flowers bright red (hellrot); IX-XI; foliage dark green; habit dense, compact. Deliberately bred seedling; selected October 2000 by Johannes van Leuven.
Fantasy name. Registered on 15 December 2002 by Johannes van Leuven.
Heathers
‘Chanell’
Flowers heliotrope (H12); II-IV; foliage green; habit broad, spreading, compact, to 15cm tall. Chance seedling (parentage not known): found in a plastic propagation tunnel in 2000 by W. Siegers, Soerendonk, Netherlands.
A compound name, named after the finder’s cousin, Chanel Liplijn, and sister-in-law, Nelly Stevens-Bogers. Registered on 10 June 2002 by W. Siegers.
‘African Fanfare’
Flowers produced in dense cylindrical clusters; 5-8 flowers per shoot; corolla c. 2cm long, tubular, translucent, white at base shading to rich beetroot-purple (H13) at lobes, paler on shaded side; ovary densely hirsute; VII-XI (in cultivation in northern hemisphere). Hybrid of uncertain and unknown origin, grown in Europe and Australasia under various incorrect names including E. doliiformis, E. linnaeoides and E. persoluta. Registered on 1 November 2002 by D. J. Small.
‘Inid’
Pure white flowers, with bright yellow foliage, later flowering than ‘Golden Angie‘. A sport from ‘Moulin Rouge‘ found and propagated by Johannes van Leuven. Named after Inid Schiller, Silber Gartenbau, Ottersburg, Germany.
‘White Spring Surprise’
White flowers; III-V; foliage medium green; height 40cm; spread 60cm.
Sport from Erica x darleyensis ‘Spring Surprise’, found by Klemens Keysers (Walbecker Dyck 2, D-47625 Kevelaer, Germany) on 25 March 2003.
Named by Kurt Kramer as a derivation of ‘Spring Surprise’
‘White Giant’
Very long racemes of white flowers; VIII-X; foliage mid green; habit vigorous requiring pruning to avoid straggly plant; height 50cm; spread 85cm.
Wild-collected; found on Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall, England, by J. N. Anderson (Broadhurst Nursery, Grampound, near Truro, Cornwall) in the autumn of 1981; introduced by Broadhurst Nursery. The flowering stems were 16 inches long.
Named for the length of the racemes of flowers.
‘Helen Gill’
White flowers; IX-X; foliage grey-green with cream-tips in spring and early summer; habit erect; height 40cm; spread 55cm. A sport on ‘Beoley Silver‘ . Found in the garden of Jack Platt in 1984 and named after his granddaughter.
‘Blue Lagoon’
Urn-shaped soft pink flowers; IV-V/VI; foliage clear blue-grey, linear-lance-shaped leaves, 2–3 cm long, with silvery hues. Differs from ‘Blue Ice’ in much more prominent blue-grey foliage, rather than blue-green. Sport on ‘Blue Ice, discovered by Marcel Brand at Boskoop, Netherlands, in 2006; in 2010, patented under United States PP22004.
‘Golden Jubilee’
White flowers, corolla 5–6mm long, to 2mm across, ovoid; calyx 3–4mm; XII-IV; foliage “Golden”; Selected seedling from ‘Golden Lady’, propagated from an individual plant growing in the garden of Susie and Alan Kay, Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland.
Another plant in Seller’s mother’s garden was 1m tall unpruned after 29 years.
Named to mark the Golden Jubilee of The Heather Society in 2013.
® E.2013:02 registered on 6 September 2013 by B. Sellers, London.
‘Rieke’
Corolla lavender (H3); VI-X; foliage mid-green; habit upright; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 2 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, made in 2005 between unnamed seedlings, selected in 2010. More floriferous than ‘Vanessa’.
® D.2013:04 registered on 17 March 2013 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.