Heathers

‘Zalina’

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♤ Bud-flowering (Knospenblüher); small purple (RHS 74 B, H10) buds only after a warm autumn (perhaps in XI); foliage black-green in summer; new growth dark green; habit broad, upright; height 25 cm; spread 30 cm after 3 years, pruned

Deliberately raised; cross made in Autumn 2007; selected Autumn 2008, by Kurt Kramer.

® C.2015:03. Registered by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany).

Applied for and bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 16.10.2015. CPVO 6.2015 15/12/2015

EU plant breeders rights given on 19.06.2017 CPVO 4.2017 15/08/2017.

‘Lisann’

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♤ Bud-flowering (Knospenblüher), violet; mid VIII-X; foliage silver-green; habit: upright; height 45cm; spread 35cm across after 5 years (not pruned). Later to flower than ‘Loki’; more upright.

Deliberately raised seedling, raised before 2010, selected in September 2013. EU-Sortenschutz VL-13-7 (Lisann).

® C.2015:02. Registered by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).

Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 27.03.2015. CPVO 3.2015 15/06/2015

Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 19.06.2017. CPVO 4.2015 15/08/2017

‘Lore’

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♤ Bud-flowering (Knospenblüher), buds red, small, VIII-X; foliage green; habit: upright; height to 45cm; spread 35cm across after 5 years (not pruned). Later to flower than ‘Loki’; more upright.

Deliberately raised seedling, raised before 2010, selected in September 2013. EU-Sortenschutz VL-13-5 (Lore).

® C.2015:01. Registered by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).

Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 22.03.2015. CPVO 3.2015 15/06/2015

Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 19.06.2017. CPVO 4.2017 15/08/2017

‘Golden Wedding’

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Flowers none to date; foliage gold in summer, lime-green to gold in winter; habit compact, erect, low. A chance seedling found in 1996 and named to celebrate Jack and Ruth Piatt’s golden wedding anniversary in 1999.
Registered 1 November 1999: Jack Piatt, Fernbank, 176 Southport Road, Ulnes- Walton, PR5 3LN, Lancashire, England.

‘Lila Fee’

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Flowers lilac; VII-VIII; foliage dark green; habit compact, upright. Seeding; selection from a sequence of seedlings from a deliberate cross by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany). Registered on 14 December 2001 by Kurt Kramer.

‘Joan Graham’

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Flowers white to lilac (H4) with red /crimson petal edges turning brown; foliage green; habit  upright, large,self-branching.

Chance seeding; raised by M. Nicholson; found in a tray of seedlings set from capsules from ‘Mrs D. F. Maxwell‘; the other parent was possibly ‘Lyonesse‘. Outgrew the other 50 seedlings and was covered in flowers; bloomed for first time in September 2000.

Named after Mrs Nicholson (her maiden name). Registered on 1 February 2001 by Mr M. Nicholson.

‘Melanie Select’

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♤ Bud-bloomer, calyx white; IX-XI; foliage bright green; habit broad, bushy.

Sport on ‘Babette‘; found by K. Kramer in 1998. “Finer than ‘Melanie‘”.

Registered on 3 November 2002 by Kurt Kramer.

Recorded and bred by Kurt Kramer, Edammer Straße 26, D-26188, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany. 28.11.2001. CPVO 1.2002 15/02/2002

Kurt Kramer, EU PBR given on 09.02.2004. CPVO 2.2004 15/04/2004

‘Loni Kircher’

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Bud-bloomer, calyx lilac (HI); IX-XI; foliage mid-green; habit broad, bushy. Deliberately bred seedling; raised by Kurt Kramer in 1991 (sister-seedling of ‘Fritz Kircher‘).
Named after Mrs Loni Kircher, wife of Fritz Kircher, President of Gesellschaft der Heidefreunde. This cultivar should not be confused with Calluna vulgaris ‘Loni’ which is also named after Mrs Kircher, and which is not a bud-bloomer. Registered on 3 November 2002 by Kurt Kramer.

‘Klausi’

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♤ Bud-bloomer, calyx white; IX-XI; foliage bright green; habit upright, compact. Deliberately bred seedling: raised by K. Kramer in 1991 (sister-seedling of ‘Alicia‘).
A composite word, without meaning. Registered on 3 November 2002 by Kurt Kramer.