Flowers lavender; VIII-IX; foliage grey foliage with yellow and flame coloured young shoots; habit upright. A sport found on ‘Silver Knight‘, at Twin Acre Nursery, near Knutsford, Cheshire.
Heathers
‘Con’s Gold’
Flowers magenta; foliage green with gold tips in spring and early summer; habit erect. A sport on ‘Con Underwood‘ found by John L. Jones, Glywern Nursery, Cilcennin, Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales, in 1993.
‘Tessa’
Flowers purple; V-VII; foliage dark green, habit open. A seedling found by H. Ballyantyne of Netherfield nurseries, Dumfries.
‘May Gold’
Flowers deep pink; foliage deep gold in spring and early summer; habit erect with curling stems. A seedling found on his nursery by John L. Jones, Glywern Nursery, Cilcennin, Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales, in 1993.
‘Red Shift’
Flowers ruby; foliage dark green with bronze tips; habit open.Faster growing than ‘Nathalie‘. A seedling found on his nursery by John Proudfoot,Almondell Nursery, Methven, Perthshire, in 1990.
‘Alistair’
Flowers pale rose; VII-IX; foliage small light green leaves. Found by H.H. Ballantyne of Netherfeld, near Dumfries in a friends garden before 1991.
‘Golden Sunrise’
‘Erling’
Extreme dwarf, dark green foliage; looks like a ball of moss.
Sport (witch’s broom) on ‘Martha Hermann‘, in Sweden by a friend of Brita Johansson in 1990.
Named after the finder’s husband.
‘Pink Lantern’
Flowers pink; foliage bright green; habit low growing, broad. Chance seedling found c 1990 by John Proudfoot of Almondell Nursery, Methven, Perthsire, Scotland, c. 1990.
‘Rachel Patricia’
Flowers few, mauve; foliage light green, with pink tips in spring lasting well into the summer; habit low, compact.
Seedling, raised by Stan Crabtree, Eversley Nursery, Hesketh Bank, near Preston, Lancashire; named after his grand-daughter.