Flowers pale mauve (H2), single, VIII-IX; foliage rich golden in Summer, light red in Spring; there are red tints in the foliage even in Summer; habit low, spreading, to 20cm tall, 45cm across after 5 years.
Seedling, deliberately raised in 1998 and selected by Brita Johansson.
® C.2005:03 registered on 25 August 2005 by Brita Johansson, Musselvagen 3, 468 34 Vargon, Sweden.
Rejected name replaced by ‘Nelly‘
♤ White bud-bloomer with “extremely thick buds”; VIII-IX; habit broad and upright.
Registered on 13 February 2005 by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern-Liillingen, Germany.
Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 21.11.2007. CPVO 1.2008 15/02/2008
Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 07.07.2008. CPVO 5.2008 15/10/2008
White flowers borne freely; V-X; mid-green foliage; height 21-25cm; spread 46-60cm. The earliest D. cantabrica to bloom.
‘One which … did not really show its virtue until April 1972 when with the other Daboecias still fast asleep, it was growing vigorously and carrying lovely white bells.’*
Seedling; raised from supposedly pure D. cantabrica seed by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England) sown in 1969; ‘I call this plant ‘April Fool’, but it ever marketed, ‘Early Bride’ might be more attractive.
This is the original name, and must be retained. The alternative name ‘Early Bride’ must not be used; a proposal to conserve it against ‘April Fool’ was rejected by the ICNCP in November 2003.
Corolla white, calyx brown; VI-VIII (southern hemisphere); foliage bright gold throughout the year (as yet there has not been any evidence of reversion or scorching in temperatures often above 30°C); habit spreading.
Branch sport on an unidentified white-flowered cultivar (not extant) believed to have been Erica x darlyensis (but more likely to have been Erica carnea ‘Springwood White’); found in 2001 by C. Gill in his garden in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Registered on 18 November 2004 by Chris Gill, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Named by Mr Gill after his late wife Raye.
Corolla pink, calyx pale pink; I-V; foliage green-gold in summer, changing to yellow-gold in winter; habit broad, upright. More vigorous, and foliage less orange than other golden-foliage Erica x darleyensis. Selected in 2003 from a deliberate cross between Erica carnea ‘Golden Starlet’ and Erica erigena ‘Brian Proudley’ made in 1996 by David Wilson, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Name alludes to foliage colour and western North American history; named by Crystal Gillingham (Wilson’s Nursery Ltd). registered on 3 August 2004 by David Wilson, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Corolla pink (H9), campanulate (bell-shaped) to conical so broadening gradually towards lobes (not constricted in middle); IV-XI; leaves with hairs along the margins and on the under-rolled sides; terminal hair usually with gland at tip; bushy, vigorous shrub; when not pruned to 0.5m tall. Like ‘Edewecht Blush‘, but distinguished most easily by the dark red pedicels being noticeably pubescent with minute, straight hairs (without glands) mixed with shorter, gland-tipped hairs.
The cultivar names are derived from Edewecht, the name of the town in northern Germany where Kurt Kramer lives and where he raised these seedlings.
Flowers colourless but appearing pink (“blushing”) when young due to colour of immature stamens inside; flower-stalks usually entirely without hairs; IV-XI; foliage bright green; leaves scattered, almost spirally arranged or in pairs or in “disarticulated” whorls of 3 or 4; linear, with parallel sides, to 6.5mm long, 0.5mm wide; sulcate; with a few, scattered microscopic hairs on the margins; apex pointed, with spicules (microscopic hairs); bushy, vigorous shrub, to 0.5m tall.
The cultivar names are derived from Edewecht, the name of the town in northern Germany where Kurt Kramer lives and where he raised these seedlings.
Flowers mauve (H2), calyx beetroot (H9); V-IXr; foliage dark green, small, fine; habit compact, dwarf, to 30cm tall (after 5 years).
Chance seedling at Champs Hill, Pulborough, Sussex, found in 1999.
Named after Sid Brown, gardener at Champs Hill; named by Mrs C. M. Bowerman.
® D.2004:01 registered 28 October 2004 by Mrs C. M. Bowerman, Champs Hill, Pulborough
♤ Bud-bloomer; greyish white; IX-XI; foliage dark green; habit broad, upright, vigorous.
Found 1 November 2000 by Kurt Kramer. Registered on 26 July 2003 by Kurt Kramer.
