♤ Bud-flowering, ruby (H5; RHS 59B–60A), darker than ‘Amethyst’; VIII-IX; foliage dark green, new growth mid-green; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 3 years (pruned).
Sport from ‘Amethyst’ found in Autumn 1999 at Apen, Germany, in nursery of Marohn & Häger.
® C.2011:05 registered on 12 February 2011 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Flowers solitary on side shoots, buds pink (H8), opening shell-pink (H16); calyx lobes about 3.5mm long, broad; corolla lobes shorter, c. 3mm; foliage individual leaves less than 1mm long, mid-green, glabrous; very tightly appressed to slender and short (about 1cm long, not more than 1mm wide) side shoots, which are often not branched – the effect is of a mossy shrub; shoots tips paler, yellow-green when young.
Seedling deliberately raised and selected in 2006 by Sten-Börje Sörensson; Ally was his mother’s second name.
® C.2011:08 registered on 16 September 2011 by Sten-Börje Sörensson, Hono, Sweden.
Flowers, corolla and sepals magenta (H14 RHS 68A); XI-IV; foliage dark green; height 25cm; spread 25cm after 3 years.
Seedling raised by Kurt Kramer in 2006.
® E.2009:01 registered on 11 March 2009 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Name derivation unknown.
Flowers white; XI/XII-III/IV; corolla urceolate, to 5.3mm long; width at lobes 2.0mm, at widest 2.9mm; calyx white; foliage green; habit low shrub; height 15cm; spread 30cm after 2 years.
Deliberately created hybrid with Erica lusitanica ‘George Hunt‘ pollinated by an unnamed Erica erigena seedling (from ‘Golden Lady‘ ); hand-pollinated; seed taken 1996.
Named by Barry Sellers; from “lusi-” and “-gena”.
® E.2009:03 registered on 17 August 2009 by Barry Sellers, Norbury London, UK.
Flowers cerise (H6), small; VI-VII; height 20cm; spread 20cm after 3 years.
Seedling “reinrosa K1”, raised by Kurt Kramer about 2004.
Named by Heidegärtnerei Ines Grünberg, Auerstr. 215, D-01640 Coswig.
® E.2009:02 registered on 11 March 2009 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Flowers purple shading to crimson (HIO to H13); VI/VII-X; foliage very fine, pale green to yellow, with red shoot-tips; habit compact; height 16cm; spread 18cm after 4 years when not pruned.
Sport on ‘Blossom Time‘ at Champs Hill in 2003, found and selected by Sid Brown.
Named (with her consent) after Dame Felicity Lott, singer; her affectionate nickname.
® E.2009:04 registered on 22 October 2009 by Mrs Mary Bowerman, Champs Hill, Coldwaltham, West Sussex, UK.
Flowers mauve (H2); V/VI-X; corolla urn-shaped; calyx green; foliage downy, green; habit spreading; height 20cm; spread 30cm after 2 years. Differs in being very floriferous, early flowering and repeat-flowering.
Wild-collected, found by Steve Yandall in 2007 on Ventongimps Moor, Cornwall; selected in 2009 by Steve Yandall.
Named (with his consent) after Allen Hall, Vice-President of The Heather Society.
® E.2009:05 registered on 29 September 2009 by Stephen James Yandall, Germoe, Cornwall.
Flowers heliotrope (H12); corolla small (less thcin 10mm) with a few scattered gland- tipped hairs; ovary with prominent gland-tipped hairs very obvious when corolla falls; VI-VII; foliage dark, glossy green; leaves to c. 6mm; habit low-growing, compact; height 15cm; spread 10cm after 3 years.
Self-sown seedling found in Forest Edge Nursery (Woodlands, Wimbome, Dorset); parentage not known but believed to be from Daboecia x scotica cultivars grown on the nursery. Given to Julian Fitz-Earle about 2006.
Name suggested by David Edge, because it was a tiny plant and Thumbelina was the name of the tiny girl from the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale.
® D.2009:01 registered on 18 Jime 2009 by Julian Fitz-Earle, West Wickham, Kent, UK.
Flowers the same colour as ‘Amelie‘ (red); VIII-X; foliage dark green; habit extremely upright, taut; height 50cm; spread 40cm after 2 years.
Selected by Johannes van Leuven in August 2007 from 15,000 seedlings.
Named, with her consent, after the actress Andrea Sawatzki.
® D.2009:02 registered on 19 August 2009 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldem-Lullingen, Germany.
No Flowers; foliage light yellow; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 3 years.
Seedling raised by Kurt Kramer in 2004.
® C.2009:05 registered on 11 March 2009 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Applied for and bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 28.08.2009. CPVO 6.2009 15/12/2009
EU plant breeders rights given on 22.03.2010. CPVO 3.2010 15/06/2010.
