Heathers

Shell-pink (H16) flowers, III–V; dark green foliage; forms a large dome in time; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. A good garden-worthy plant.

The origins and history of this cultivar are not recorded;

Named from Latin hibernicus = Irish.

Salmon (H15) buds opening rose-pink (H7) flowers, XI–V; dark grey-green foliage; neat compact habit; height 46–60cm; spread 31–45cm.

Found by David McClintock on the shore of Lough Carrowmore, County Mayo, Ireland.

Name alludes to the dusky foliage and its origin in Ireland.

Salmon (H15) buds opening rose-pink (H7) flowers, XII–V; mid-grey-green foliage; open habit; height 46–60cm; spread 31–45cm.

Not as hardy as ‘Irish Dusk‘, with which it has been confused; found at the same place and time as ‘Irish Dusk‘.

Wild-collected; found on the north-western shore of Lough Carrowmore, County Mayo, Ireland, by David McClintock (Platt, Kent, England) on 7 April 1966; named by D. McClintock in 1970; introduced by John Letts (Foxhollow, Windlesham, Surrey) in 1970.

Name is an allusion to the flower colour.

Pale lilac (H4/H16) flowers, IV–VI, in short spikes; dark green foliage; compact; height 31–45cm; spread 31–45cm.

Found by Valerie Proudley on the shore of Lough Furnace, County Mayo, Ireland.

Name is an allusion to the flower colour.

Heliotrope (H12) flowers, III–V, abundant; dark green foliage; erect habit; height more than 1m; spread 75–100cm.

Lavender flowers, II–V; dark green foliage; upright habit; height 46–60cm; spread 46–60cm.

Heliotrope (H12) flowers, III–V; glaucous green in summer, turning bronze-green in winter; height 46–60cm; spread 46–60cm.

Heliotrope (H12) flowers, III–V, abundant; dull dark green foliage; upright, fairly dense in habit; height 46–60cm; spread 21–25cm.

Found at Wilson’s Nursery (Christchurch, New Zealand) about 1935, and at least in the mid-1960s believed to be a hybrid (E. x darleyensis – described by Young (1965) as ‘a hybrid of mediterranea’).