White flowers; III–V; bright green foliage; height 31–45cm; spread 31–45cm. Flowers more abundant than on ‘Alba’.
Name from Latin nanus = dwarf; compactus = compact.
Heathers
‘W. T. Rackliff ‘
II–VI; rich green foliage; very neat, compact forming a rounded bush; height 61–75cm; spread 46–60cm.
‘W. T. Rackliff Variegated’
I–V; bright green foliage flecked with yellow; neat compact habit; height 61–75cm; spread 46–60cm. A sport from ‘W. T. Rackliff‘.
‘Archie Graham’
Pink (H8) flowers darkening to heliotrope with heliotrope (H12) sepals, XII–IV; mid-green foliage; height 46–60cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling; raised by J. W. Porter (Carryduff, County Down, Northern Ireland) before 1967; introduced by Hilliers (Winchester, Hampshire, England) before 1973.
Named after one of J. W. Porter’s friends and one-time Superintendent of the Belfast Botanic Garden Park.
‘Arthur Johnson’
Pink (H8) flowers darkening to heliotrope (H12), XII–IV, in long spikes and slightly scented; mid-green foliage, the young shoots tipped cream in spring; height 46–60cm; spread 61–75cm.
Chance seedling; found by A. T. Johnson in his garden at Conway, north Wales, before 1952; it is thought to be a seedling between Erica erigena ‘Hibernica‘ and Erica carnea ‘Ruby Glow‘.
Named after the finder, Arthur Tysilo Johnson, a one-time schoolmaster and later a renowned gardener.
‘Aurélie Brégeon’
Large lilac-pink (H11) flowers, X–III; mid-green foliage; height 26–30cm; open habit; spread 46–60cm. Not as hardy as most Darley Dale heaths.
A sport from ‘Darley Dale‘, found at Renens, Switzerland, by Henri Brégeon (Vand, Switzerland) in 1980.
Named after the finder’s wife, or second daughter (Yearbook 1991).
‘Bert’
Large (to 6mm long) pink (H8) flowers, XI–III, with deep lilac pink (H11) sepals; mid-green foliage; strong but compact habit; height 35cm; spread 60cm.
Deliberately raised by Peter Bingham (Gedney, Lincolnshire).
Named after one of his sons, Richard (his nickname is Bert).
® E.2007:12 registered in 2007 by Peter Bingham, Gedney, Lincolnshire, UK.
‘Darley Dale’
Shell-pink (H16) flowers which darken to pink (H8), XI–IV; mid-green foliage, the young shoots with cream tips in spring; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling; found in James Smith’s nursery (Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England); introduced by James Smith by 1900. This name was in use by 1971; formerly called, inter alia, Erica hybrida darleyensis.
Named after the nursery where it was discovered.
‘Epe’
Lilac (H4) flowers I–V; mid-green foliage, young shoots green; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
A seedling found growing in his garden in Ernst, Netherlands, by J. Dogger, c. 1982.
Named after the nearby town.
‘Erecta’
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, I–V; mid-green foliage; broad upright habit with occasional very long shoots; height 31–45cm; spread 61–75cm.
Seedling of uncertain origin; included as Erica carnea in catalogues of Georg Arends (Wuppertal, Germany) in 1929, and of Kaiser & Siebert (Germany) in 1932.
Named from erectus = erect.