♤ Bud-bloomer, calyx white; IX-XI; foliage bright green; habit upright. 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.
Heathers
‘Golden Ellena’
♤ Bud-bloomer, calyx lilac-red;IX-X; foliage outstanding yellow in summer turning orange in winter; habit broad, spreading. Sport on ‘Marleen‘; found by Eckart Berndt in his nursery in 1998.
Named after Eckart Berndt’s daughter, and alluding to the foliage colour. Registered on 6 October 2002 by Eckart Berndt.
‘Dreinullvier’
♤ Bud-bloomer, calyx lilac (H3);IX-XI; foliage mid-green; habit broad, bushy. Deliberately bred seedling; raised by K. Kramer in 1991 (sister-seedling of ‘Fritz Kircher’).
The name comprises the German words for three (drei), zero (null) and four (vier) (304 was its nursery code). Registered on 3 November 2002 by Kurt Kramer.
‘Cleopatra’
♤ 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.
‘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 buds, 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.