‘Strathspey’

Flowers lavender with dark anthers, VIII-IX; Foliage “bronze, turning fiery-red in winter”, yellow(green); colours in winter much quicker than other foliage cultivars; habit upright, to 30cm tall, to 45cm across after 3 years. Chance seedling at Speyside Heather Centre, Dulmain Bridge, Inverness-shire; on sale in August 2004 at the Second International Heather Conference. Named: after the region in which it originated.

® C03:2004 registered November 2004 by David Lambie, Speyside Heather Centre, Dulnain Bridge, Scotland.