Flowers profusely with bright purple blossoms (H10) which entirely smother the plant. Compact low plant with green foliage, very slow growing. Little cutting material is available.
Wild-collected; found near Killybegs, County Donegal, Ireland, by Mrs Eileen Porter about 1969; introduced by P. J. Foley, Holden Clough Nursery (Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire, England).
Named after Anne Dobbin, Mrs Eileen Porter’s granddaughter (see also Calluna vulgaris ‘Anne Dobbin’).
Flowers rose pink (H7); XII-IV; foliage green; habit upright; height and width 30-60cm. Improvement on Erica carnea ‘Winter Beauty’
Correct name for this cultivar is Erica arborea f. arborea ‘Kermit’. Name changed as original name was rejected by the Federal Plant Variety Office (Bundessortenamt).
Flowers white; malformed style-end noticeably crooked; stamens with sigmoid bend towards apex of filament; anthers without any visible awns (not even a tuft of spicules). Some flower bud aborted.
Deliberately raised seedling from E. lusitanica × E. carnea ‘Winterfreude’, cross made by Johannes van Leuven in 2012; clone 7.
® E.2016:08. Registered on 29th December 2016 by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).
Flowers “lachsrosa”, VII-X; foliage green; habit broadly upright, to 50cm tall, 50cm spread after 4 years (pruned).
Sport on ‘Tina’ found by Johannes van Leuven, in July 2013.
® D.2016:03. Registered on 29th december 2016 by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).
♤ Bud-flowering (Knospenblüher), “salmon” (“a new colour in Calluna”); IX-XII; foliage green; habit upright, to 50cm tall × 50cm across after 4 years (pruned).
Deliberately raised seedling, raised in September 2011, selected in September 2012.
® C.2016:04. Registered on 29th December 2016 by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).
♤ Bud-flowering (Knospenblüher), red; X-XII; foliage very dark black-green; green when young; habit upright, to 50cm tall × 50cm across after 4 years (pruned).
“Blüht ab: KW 41. Die schwarzlaubige Sorte ‘Mina’ erhält durch die erst spät erscheinenden roten Knospen ein ganz spezielles Erscheinungsbild.”
Deliberately raised seedling, raised in October 2010, selected in October 2011.
Named by Johannes van Leuven after his grandmother: “she loved flowers”.
® C.2016:03. Registered on 29th December 2016 by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).
Flowers rose-pink, reputed to be slightly darker than ‘Riverslea‘.
Seedling; found by Mrs Amy Doncaster in her garden at Chandlers Ford (Southampton, Hampshire, England); introduced by McPenny’s (Bransgore, Christchurch, Dorset) in 1978 as E. carnea, and also labelled in their nursery E. arborea.
Named after the finder, Amy (née Baring), the second wife of Edwin Doncaster, who had a fine garden at Chandlers’ Ford, Hampshire (The garden 107: 5-10 (1982); Yearbook of The Heather Society 3 (8): 44-45 (1990)). Yearbook of The Heather Society 2 (9): 65-66 (1980); __ 3 (2): 67 (1984).
Flowers single, in groups of four at tips of shoots, flowering shoots very densely crowded towards ends of branches; corolla c. 9mm long, white, slightly curved, widening towards mouth; calyx segments unequal, with broad translucent margins and pale green mid-rib, lobes c. 3mm long, c. 1.5mm broad; anthers brown; style to 9mm long prominently emerging from corolla, style end green when fresh; nectar profuse; IV-VI; foliage deep green; linear leaves to 6mm long; habit compact bushy shrub to 0.9m tall, to 1m across in 3 years (not pruned).
Seedling 05-2-20 raised by K. Kramer in 2005, F2 seedling of self-pollinated ‘Mr Robert‘. Selected and named by David Edge in 2016 after cultivation in Forest Edge Nurseries. Hardier than other clones of E. australis having survived a frost test as a seedling in Germany. Distinguished from ‘Mr Robert’ and ‘Holehird White’ by green style end.
® E.2016:07: registered on 21 December 2016 by David Edge, Forest Edge Nurseries, Wimborne, Dorset.
Flowers: corolla heliotrope (H12, RHS 73B), to 6mm long, 3mm across, calyx shell pink (H16), 3mm long; anthers black, style end cerise (H6); XII-V; foliage: mid-green, with bright green young growth; habit broad, bushy: after 3 year in 40cm tall; spread 40cm (pruned).
Flowers bigger than ‘Winter Treasure’.
Deliberately raised seedling (pollen parent 94-5-39, seed parent 94-5-35) produced by Kurt Kramer, in 2007; selected in 2011.
® E.2016:06 Registered on 18th February 2016 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
At time of registration as ‘Pink Magic‘ (E.2013.03) stated to be a tetrapod.
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