♤ Bud-flowering; buds rose pink; VIII-XI; foliage light green; height 30cm; spread 35cm after 3 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised cross by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
No registration record for this cultivar.
Heathers
‘Marilyn’
♤ Bud-flowerer, mauve (H2); VIII-XI; foliage dark green; habit erect; height 25cm, spread 40cm.
Wild-collected; found on Ginkelse Heide near Arnhem, Netherlands, by Dr Ir T. Visser (Wageningen, Netherlands); introduced by W. Haalboom & Zonen (Driebergen, Netherlands) by 1972.
Named after Dr Visser’s daughter.
‘Kenneth’
Little is known about this cultivar. However, from the image, Pink flowers; foliage dark green; habit very upright.
Presumably a seedling; obtained from Manning’s Heather Farm (Sebastopol, California, USA), by Clark and Edith Davis, California, USA, in 1990.
“The lady we dealt with was Mrs Manning’s neice and was very knowledgeable about heathers & told us she had developed ‘Kenneth’ and had named it.”
‘Disco Queen’
Red flowers; IX-XII; foliage green; habit upright; height 35cms, spread 45cms.
Sport on ‘Dark Star‘ . submitted for plant breeders’ rights in Germany by J. Brandt (Prisdorf, Germany) on 4 August 1999.
‘Borås’
No description other than attached image.
Wild-collected; found near Borås, southwestern Sweden, by Mats Johansson about 1982; introduced by Arthur Persson (Tostarp, Sweden) as early as 1984.
Named after the Swedish town, situated east of Göteborg, near which the plant was found [see also ‘Bosnäs’].
‘Snow White’
White flowers; VIII-XI: habit erect.
Listed by 1982; finder thought to be R. J. Brien (Pitcairngreen Heather Farm, Perthshire, Scotland).
Named, perhaps after the fairy-tale character, but probably also alluding to flower colour.
‘Derry Gold’
VIII–IX; may be slightly more gold than ‘Ruth’s Gold‘ but hasn’t come up to expectations’.
Wild-collected; found on Derry Cairngorm, Scotland, by James Mackay (Dellside, Blairdaff, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire) by 1995.
Named after the mountain on which it was found and the foliage colour.
‘Margaret Bowerman’
Flowers heliotrope.
Seedling; found at Champs Hill, Cold Waltham, West Sussex, England, by Mrs C. Mary Bowerman in August 1985.
Named after the finder’s mother-in-law, Mrs Alfred Bowerman of Champs Hill (d. 1985).
‘Asli’
♤ Bud-flowering (Knospenblüher), white, VIII-X; foliage: silvery green; habit: upright, bushy, to 50cm × 50cm after 4 years (pruned). Buds relatively large, pure white; early blooming and long-lasting; very vigorous.
A deliberately raised seedling (VL 11-00012); cross made in 2010; selected in September 2011 by J. van Leuven.
® C.2017:01 registered on 20 June 2017 by J. van Leuven, Geldern-Lüllingen, Germany.
‘Margaret Benson’
Synonym for Erica carnea ‘Weisse March Seedling’