Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, IX–X; dark green foliage turning an attractive brown in winter; open spreading habit; height 46–60cm; spread 75–100cm. Found in Scotland by Betty Baum (Aviemore, Inverness-shire), a worker at Jack Drake’s Inshriach Nursery, Aviemore by 1966 but the cultivar was available in Belgium in 1963!
Month: September 2014
‘Bispingen’
Dark lilac flowers, VIII–IX; golden-yellow foliage turing copper-red in winter; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm. Similar to ‘Cuprea’
‘Black Beauty’
Correct name ‘Bronze Beauty‘
‘Blazeaway’
Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–IX; gold foliage in summer, turning orange, then fiery red in winter; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. More free-flowering than ‘Robert Chapman’.
Found by J. W. Sparkes (Beechwood Nursery, Beoley, Redditch, Worcestershire, England); introduced by J. W. Sparkes in 1963.
Name is nn allusion to the changing foliage colours. The name should not be hyphenated (as in List [no date, c. 1975], G. P. Vickers (Sheffield)).
‘Blueness’
Mauve (H2) flowers, IX–X; dark green foliage; broad erect habit, making a good ground-cover plant; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling, found among ‘Darkness‘; raised in P. Bakhuyzen & Zonen nursery (Boskoop, Netherlands); introduced by Bakhuyzen in 1982.
Named after the former Nesspolder in part of the nursery at Boskoop.
‘Bognie’
Lavender (H3) flowers, VII–IX; gold foliage in summer, turning bronze in winter; new spring growth particularly attractive; height 16–20cm; spread 26–30cm.
‘Bonfire Brilliance’
Lilac pink (H11) flowers, VIII–IX; yellow-green foliage in summer, turning orange then bronze or red in winter; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found in Mrs Olive Cowan’s garden (Petherton, Temple Close, Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey, England); introduced by Primrose Hill Nursery (Haslemere, Surrey) in 1971.
Name is an allusion to the foliage colours.
‘Bonita’
♤ Red buds, IX–XII; orange-yellow foliage in summer turning bronze in winter; broad, spreading habit; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Similar habit to ‘Marlies‘ from which it was a sport.
Recorded and bred by Marohn & Häger, Am Ebenkamp 8, 26689 Apen, Germany. 08.09.1999. CPVO 6.1999 15/12/1999
Marohn & Häger, EU PBR given on 10.09.2001. CPVO 6.2001 15/12/2001
‘Bonne’s Darkness’
Pure purple-red flowers in dense spikes, VIII–IX; greenish yellow foliage turning greener in winter with bronze tints; broad upright habit; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm. Sport on ‘Darkness’ found by Boomkwekerijen Bonne-Versluys, Belgium, before 1998, hence the name.
‘Bonsaï’
Perhaps the slowest and smallest Calluna making a very tight clump of dark green; height 16–20cm; spread 16–20cm. It has never produced flowers!
A sport on ‘Findling‘ which is another cushion-like ling, found on G. van Hoef s nursery, Barneveld, Holland by his daughter Ria in 1988.
Bonsai is a Japanese term used for artificially dwarfed trees; an allusion to the dwarf habit.