Flowers mauve; VIII-IX; foliage grey-green; habit low-growing, creeping with swirling branches; height 12-20cm; spread 45cm after 7 years. “One of the lowest silvers. Both ‘Grey Carpet‘ and ‘Silver Cloud‘ are much taller than listed here. It has a more swirling pattern than those two.”
Chance seedling found in her nursery and propagated by Karla Lortz. Pacific Northwest Native American name for a local river.
® C.2008:10 registered on 25 August 2008 by Karla Lortz, Shelton, WA 98584-8429, USA.
Flowers single; corolla H8; VIII-IX; foliage medium green; habit upright; height 36cm; spread 25cm after 3 years.
“Wild” seedling, found by Paul A. Murphy Jr. at Waquoit Nursery, Waquoit, MA, USA, in September 1997.
® C.2008:09 registered on 24 June 2008 by Jane Murphy, Oxford, PA, USA.
♤ Bud bloomer; Calyx violet (RHS 80B); IX-XII; foliage dark green: habit erect; height after 3 years in 40 cm; spread 30 cm. Strong growth, large buds.
Origins: Selected seedling,created by Kurt Kramer (CLL 25; Kramer clone no 302nd).
® C.2008:07 registered on 6 April 2008 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Flowers white; VII-VIII; foliage yellow; height 20 cm; spread 30 cm after 3 years.
Selected seedling from ‘Oiseval‘ x ‘Gold Haze‘, created by Kurt Kramer in 1991; selected by K. Kramer in 1993 .
The name means “sun pygmy” referring to foliage colour and dwarf habit.
® C.2008:06 registered on 6 April 2008 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
♤ White flower buds, larger then ‘Alicia‘; IX-XI; foliage light green; habit erect; height 35 cm; spread 25 cm after 2 years.
Sport on ‘Alicia‘, found by Hermann Glaser (Babenhausen, Germany) in 2004.
® C.2008:05 registered on 4 May 2008 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
❁ double mauve flowers; VII-X; foliage gold green with orange tints; height 25cm; spread 30cm.
Sport of ‘Tib‘ from Ken Hutchins. Named after Ken Hutchins’s daughter.
® C.2008:02 registered on 24 January 2008 by K. Hutchins, Mossyrock, WA, USA.
❁Flowers double, shell pink; VIII-X; foliage mid-green with creamy yellow spring growth; forms compact mound.
Sport of ‘County Wicklow‘ found in 1994 by Ken Hutchins at Oregon Rhododendrons, Corvalis, USA; propagated and named by Karla Lortz.
® C.2008:01 registered on 24 January 2008 by K. Hutchins, Mossyrock, WA, USA.
Lavender (RHS75A, H3) flowers, darker than ‘Charnwood Pink‘; X-IV; habit more compact than ‘Charnwood Pink‘; foliage green. Raised by Kurt Kramer in 2000.
Named after Georg Arends, of Wuppertal Ronsdorf, the renowned German plant breeder and nurseryman was the first to raise the hybrid.
® E.2007.04 registered 17 May 2007 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Flowers single,corolla white; VII-IX; calyx lobes green, unequal, fused only at base; 4-lobed; lobes with very sparse hairs in bud; stamens 8, short; filaments ±2mm long, free or variously and irregularly fused in groups of 2-3; anthers small, thecae pale red when young turning pale tan; foliage light green; young shoots yellow; habit low-growing; height ±15cm: spread 30cm after 4 years.
Deliberately bred seedling raised in 1986 from crosses made the year before; Erica tetralix ‘Alba Mollis‘ x Erica vagans ‘Lyonesse‘.
® E.2007:09 registered on 12 June 2007 by David Wilson, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Corolla white; XI-II; foliage green; habit bushy. Flowers 2 times larger than its original variety.
Sport on ‘Silberschmelze‘ found at Vaud, Switzerland, in 1998 by Henri Bregeon.
® E.2007:10 registered 25 June 2007 by Olivier Pantin, SAPHO, Les Islettes 49250 La Menitre, France, on behalf of Aurelie, Gaelle & Pierrick Bregeon.
Name derivation unknown
