‘Ally’

Flowers solitary on side shoots, buds pink (H8), opening shell-pink (H16); calyx lobes about 3.5mm long, broad; corolla lobes shorter, c. 3mm; foliage individual leaves less than 1mm long, mid-green, glabrous; very tightly appressed to slender and short (about 1cm long, not more than 1mm wide) side shoots, which are often not branched – the effect is of a mossy shrub; shoots tips paler, yellow-green when young.

Seedling deliberately raised and selected in 2006 by Sten-Börje Sörensson; Ally was his mother’s second name.

® C.2011:08 registered on 16 September 2011 by Sten-Börje Sörensson, Hono, Sweden.