White flowers; VIII-X; foliage green with slight bluish tinge; habit low, flat; height 10cm; spread 30 cm. One of the best, creeping varieties.
Heathers
‘Josi’
❁ Bright red flowers; VIII-IX; foliage dark green; habit erect; height 30cm; spread 40cm.
‘Susie’s Blush’
Buds relatively long and narrow, slightly curved; corolla white at base flushed pale pink towards tip (deeper pink in bud); style tip dark red; anthers brown (darker than ‘Shining Light’). Flowers: (June) July–September in cultivation. Bushy heather which responds well to pruning, with vigorous upright shoots to 0.35m tall, to 0.5m across (after 8 years in cultivation; pruned); leaves densely and evenly arranged on shoots, bright green, paler than ‘Shining Light’; marginal cilia may be gland-tipped.
A selection from wild plants growing near Cabo de Peñas, Asturias, northern Spain, noticed by members of The Heather Society during a field trip in 2007.
Named as a compliment to Susie Kay, Conference Manager of The Heather Society, in whose Connemara garden it has been grown, and who has propagated it.
® E.2016:02 registered by The Heather Society.
‘Pat Turpin’
Flowers, magenta (H14) above and mauve (H2) below and are produced continously throughout summer and autumn; VII-XI; foliage Grey-green.
Seedling, selected from a deliberate cross between Erica andevalensis and Erica tetralix ‘Foxhome’; raised by Kurt Kramer.
Registered in 1991, registration no. 100 (see Yearbook of The Heather Society 3 (10): 68). Named as a tribute, on his retirement, to Major-General P. G. Turpin CB, OBE (1911-1996), who served as chairman of The Heather Society for 15 years (1977-1992) (see Yearbook of The Heather Society 1997: 1-4). This clone was formerly placed in Erica x stuartii, but as Erica andevalensis is regarded as a separate, distinct species that name is not correct, and no new binomial has been published.
‘Stoeke’
Flowers beautiful dark pink; foliage grey-green; height 25cm.
Found in 2004 by J. Baron as a seedling in his garden in Nieuw-Weerdinge, Netherlands.
“Stoeke is een aantal van 10 turven twee bij twee opgestapeld” ( … is a quantity of peat, ten
turves stacked two by two).
‘Jana’
‘Pink Melanie’
♤ Pink buds(H8). PBR granted 2000
‘Rubra’
Deep lilac-pink flowers; I-III; foliage dark green; height 15cm; spread 40cm.
This name was in use as early as 1838. Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset, England) used the name in the 1920s for a ‘very dark early’ cultivar. ‘Rubra’ may be synonymous with Erica carnea ‘Praecox Rubra‘ pre-1911; and also with Erica carnea ‘Vivellii’ (1906-1911).
Named after ruber = red.
‘Tom’s Fancy’
White flowers; VIII-IX; foliage sage-green; habit compact; height 30cm; spread 45cm.
Perhaps from R. J. Brien (Pitcairngreen Heather Farm, Perthshire, Scotland); supplied to Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden, Wisley, by Barncroft Nurseries in 1989
‘Scaynes Hill’
Crimson flowers (H13); VIII-IX; foliage green tinged gold; habit broad, upright; height 45cm; spread 45cm.
Seedling; found in the garden at Scaynes Hill, West Sussex, England, before 1982 by a member of staff of Hardwicks Nurseries (Newick, Sussex, England).
Named after the village where it was found.