See ‘Mair’s Variety‘.
Month: September 2014
‘Alba Erecta’
White flowers, VIII–IX; mid-green foliage; attractive upright habit; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Introduced before 1911.
Named after albus = white; a reference to flower colour; erectus = erect.
‘Alba Jae’
White flowers, VII–VIII, bright green foliage with yellowish tips retained for most of the year; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found by F. J. Chapple in his garden at Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, England, about 1950.
Jae was the nick-name of Mrs Jessie Chapple.
‘Alba Minor’
White flowers for a long period, VII–IX; bright green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 21–25cm.
‘Alba Multiflora’
White flowers, IX–X; mid-green foliage; upright habit; height 46–60cm; spread 46–60cm.
‘Alba Pilosa’
White flowers, VIII–IX; hairy mid-green foliage. Upright habit. Introduced before 1868; height 21–25cm; spread 46–60cm.
‘Alba Praecox’
White flowers, VI–VIII; mid-green foliage; neat upright habit; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling; found by Georg Arends (Wuppertal, Germany); introduced by Arends in 1938.
Named from albus = white; a reference to flower colour; praecox = early, precocious, a reference to the flowering season.
‘Alba Pumila’
White flowers, VIII–IX; mid-green foliage; neat, dwarf habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
‘Alba Rigida’
White flowers, VII–VIII; bright green foliage; distinctive, close intricate habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
Sport on Calluna ‘Rigida’; introduced before 1867 when it was listed by James Smith (Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England).
Named from albus = white; a reference to flower colour; rigidus = rigid, stiff.
‘Alex Warwick’
White flowers, VI–VII; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Wild-collected (collector’s no. K60); found on St Kilda by R. J. Brien (Pitcairngreen Heather Farm, Perthshire, Scotland) in 1967; introduced in 1971 by The Scottish National Trust. One of several clones collected from St Kilda.
Named after the founder of the St Kilda Club.