♤ Bud-flowering with long flowering spikes, pink; IX-XII; foliage grey-green; habit very robust, upright; height 60cm; spread 50cm in 5 years.
Sport on ‘Bettina’ found at Geldern by Johannes van Leuven: “Upright and longer flowering shoots than ‘Pink Madonna‘, robust, vigorous.”
® C.2010:09 registered on 1 December 2010 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern, Germany.
♤ Bud-flowering with long flowering spikes, white; IX-XII; foliage grey-green; habit very robust, upright; height 60cm; spread 50cm in 5 years.
Found in September 2007 at Geldern by Johannes van Leuven.
Named after Bettina Banse.
® C.2010:08 registered on 1 December 2010 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldern, Germany.
Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 14.03.2011. CPVO 3.2011 15/06/2011
Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 08.07.2013. CPVO 5.2013 15/10/2013
Flowers normal, sepals and petals lavender, to 3mm long, anthers brown; VIII-IX; foliage yellow in summer, tinted orange in winter; habit trailing/weeping; height 3cm; spread trailing stems to 24cm long after 3 years.
Sport on ‘Annes zwerg’ in 2006 at Forest Edge Nurseries, Wimborne.
[NB, “Bertha” was the name given, as a joke, to the “lady” whose “hair-do”, complete with pink bows, was composed of the cultivar ‘Annes Goldzwerg’.]
® C.2010:04 registered on 7 September 2010 by David Edge, Wimborne, Dorset.
♤ Bud-bloomer, calyx white (“grey white (like Erica x darleyensis ‘Silberschmelze‘)”); IX-XI; foliage mid-green; habit broad, bushy. Sport on clone “Kn. 304” (here named ‘Dreinullvier‘); found in 1999 by K. Kramer. A German girl’s name. Registered on 3 November 2002 by Kurt Kramer.
♤ Bud-flowering: pink (H8), buds small to medium sized: IX-XII; habit moderately robust; height 25cm; spread 30cm.
Sport on ‘Vivian’ found by Kurt Kramer in 2007.
® C.2010:03 registered on 14 June 2010 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
♤ Bud-flowering: lilac (H4): IX-XII; foliage dark green; habit robust, upright; height 40cm; spread 30cm after 3 years.
Sport on ‘Juliane’ found by Kurt Kramer in 2008: “Deviations from other varieties and distinctive features: Strong Growth.”
® C.2010:02 registered on 14 June 2010 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Calluna vulgaris f. multibracteata; blooms much later than other cultivars. Flowers lavender (H3); not opening fully, but not bud-flowering; solitary at apex of short, multibracteate side-shoots on underside of main stems; X-II: calyx lobes to 3.5mm long, 2mm broad, ovate; corolla to 3mm long; stamens 8, not apparently malformed; gynoecium present, not malformed. Foliage dark green. Habit bushy; height 25cm; spread 30cm after 2 years.
Sport on ‘Chase White’ found by Harry Bowen in his garden at Chase Road, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA.
Named after Mrs Grace Bowen, and Mr Harry Bowen.
® C.2010:01 registered on 17 February 2010 by Northeast Heather Society, USA.
Mauve (H2) darkening to pale purple (H10), II–IV; dull green foliage; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm. Attractive flower colour.
Replacement name for ‘Startler’ (introduced by 1955 by Maxwell & Beale) which is an invalid name because another cultivar of Erica had previously carried this same name. [Referred to as ‘Startler’ in the following, e. g. Catalogue 1955-1956, Maxwell & Beale: 5; F. J. Chapple, The heather garden: 95 (1960; revised edn) __ 119 (1964 edn); J. F. Letts, Hardy heaths & the heather garden: 76 (1966, 2nd edn); D. Small & A. Small, Handy guide to heathers: 66 (1992: 1st edn); __: 106 (2001, 3rd edn)]. Registered on 19 December 2012 by The Heather Society.
Named from the original name with additon of Broadstone (Maxwell & Beale’s nursrey)
Flowers lilac-pink (H11); VI-IX; foliage: mature dark green: young shoots bright green; habit upright like Erica spiculifolia; height 25cm; spread 30cm after 3 years (pruned).
Seedling raised by Kurt Kramer in 2004 from unnamed “pink” seedling of Erica manipuliflora deliberately pollinated by an unnamed “crimson” seedling of Erica spiculifolia; selected in 2008 (04-63-1).
® E.2012:03 registered 19 February 2012 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
Flowers rose-pink (H7); VII-X; foliage: mid green; habit spreading; height 30cm; spread 50cm after 3 years pruned. The flower colour resembled ‘Birch Glow’ but the flowers are bigger.
Seedling raised by Kurt Kramer in 2003 from an unnamed seedling pollinated by ‘Birch Glow’; selected in 2011.
® E.2012:02 registered on 19 February 2012 by K. Kramer, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany.
