Flowers deep magenta-pink (amethyst Hl[— H12]), in short racemes; VII-X; foliage dark green, hirsute, cilia glandular; leaves in whorls of 3 or 4 or spirally arranged, pubescent when young, becoming almost glabrous; shoots with golden tips in Spring; stems hirsute with long, gland-tipped hairs, and dense, short hairs; internodes beneath racemes increase in length upwards; habit compact to 15cm tall, spread to 40cm across.
Selected seedling from deliberate cross of Erica ciliaris ‘Corfe Castle‘ x Erica tetralix ‘Con Underwood‘, made on 1 August 1982; first flowered in 1987; bred and selected by Dr John Griffiths. Registered on 3 October 2006 by Dr John Griffiths, Garforth, Yorkshire.
Heathers
‘Westbourne Grove’
Shrub, very floriferous; flowers small, campanulate, pink in bud, white later, style does not protrude; pollen infertile; III-V. Chance seedling of unknown origin; purchased c. 1980 from a nursery in Westbourne Grove, Bayswater, under the name Erica arborea ‘Alpina‘. Registered on 20 April 2006 by Allen Hall, Loughborough.
‘Craig’
Corolla pink (H8); VII-X; not free-flowering; after hard pruning, a compact, grey-green shrub, about lm tall; new growths brighter green than mature foliage; The “original” (only surviving) clone of the batch of seedlings raised in 1983, the progeny of Erica tetralix ‘Bartinney‘ x Erica manipuliflora ‘Aldeburgh‘. Named after Dr & Mrs Griffiths’s first grandson, Craig Simpson.
Registered on 18 August 2006 by Dr John Griffiths, Garforth, Yorkshire.
‘Golden Perfect’
Flower white; calyx green; XI-V; foliage pure yellow, yellow-green in Winter, does not burn in sun; habit broad, spreading, more compact than most Erica x darleyensis; height 40cm; spread 70cm.
Sport on ‘White Perfection‘, found by Albert Bosch in 1995 at nursery. Registered on 29 October 2006 by Albert Bosch, Westerlee, Netherlands.
Named from foliage colour and origin (sport on ‘White Perfection‘)
‘Barneveld’s Glorie’
Flowers single; corolla Purple Violet 81A; calyx Greyed Purple 184B; VII-X; foliage summer: yellow-green 153 A; winter: red-brown discoloration 178 A; habit “wide-erect“, especially the yellow foliage in contrast with the dark flower. the young foliage is yellow with bronze-colored growing tips.
Chance seedling; found in July 2002 by G. van Hoef; Found as a seedling in a pot with Daboecia x scotica ‘Bearsden‘.
® D.2006:01 registered on 20 March 2006 by G. van Hoef, Barneveld, The Netherlands.
‘Haalboom’s Red’
Corolla bright red (like ‘Dark Beauty‘); VIII-IX; foliage green/bright green; habit broad upright. “It’s a beautiful, healthy cultivar with striking flower color and floriferous.”
Deliberately bred, about 2003, by H. Hoekert, kwekerij Hoekert BV Oldebroek; selected and named by Henk Haalboom.
® C.2006:04 registered on 11 September 2006 by Firma W. Haalboom en Zn, Driebergen, Netherlands.
‘Bright Velvet’
Flowers white; VII-IX; foliage pure grey, without a trace of green; habit erect. Sport on ‘Velvet Fascination‘, found by Albert Bosch in 1994 on nursery.
® C.2006:05 registered on 29 October 2006 by Albert Bosch, Westerlee, Netherlands.
‘Amla’
Corolla heliotrope (H12); flowers on rust-red pedicels, single; VIII-IX; foliage lime-green with more yellow tips, turning bronze-yellow in Autumn; habit low, dense, spreading; 20cm tall, 50cm broad after 5 years because each shoot (even flowering ones) curves downwards; it does not need pruning. Very hardy.
Chance seedling found in a pot containing a “big Arran Gold‘ … used as a mother plant to take cuttings from”; found at Glimakra, about 2000.
® C.2006:02 registered on 2 January 2006 by Torgny Karlsson, Glimakra, Sweden.
‘Stieneke’
Corolla red wine (H 14); I-IV; foliage bright yellow in summer, orange-yellow to orange in Winter “; habit” wide spreading.
Sport from ‘Kramer’s Rote‘, found by H. Haalboom Sr. in 1997 at Nursery Fa. W. Haalboom and Zn, Driebergen. Registered on 17 September 2006 by Fa. W. Haalboom en Zn, Driebergen, Netherlands.
Named after the wife of the founder H. Haalboom sr, Stieneke Haalboom-Chardon.
‘Erica andevalensis f. andevalensis‘
Pink flowers; XI-I; foliage grey-green; habit loose open, height 100cm spread 75cm. Flowering is unreliable in a northern European climate and it’s hardiness is suspect. Of botanical interest.