Lilac-pink flowers, IX–X, in “interrupted” upright spikes; mid-green foliage; upright open habit; height 46–60cm; spread 46–60cm.
Wild-collected; found on Corfu, Greece, by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England) about 1972.
Named after the Greek island on which it was collected.
Pale pink (H8) flowers, VIII–IX, free flowering; light green foliage; dense and erect; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. Hardy.
Wild-collected; found on Corfu, Greece, by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England) about 1972.
Named after the collector.
Note: Classified as Erica manipuliflora subsp. anthura; Jones (1991: 31) stated ‘The cultivars ‘Don Richards’, ‘Elegant Spike’, ‘Ian Cooper’ and ‘Korcula’, all … are E. anthura …’.
Shell-pink (H16) flowers, X–XII, very abundant; grey-green foliage; spreading habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. Hardy.
Wild-collected; found on Otok Korçula in former Yugoslavia (now in Croatia), by A. G. Small (Eltham, London, England) in 1978.
Named after a friend of the finder.
Classified as Erica manipuliflora subsp. anthura
Note: Jones (1991: 31) stated ‘The cultivars ‘Don Richards’, ‘Elegant Spike’, ‘Ian Cooper’ and ‘Korcula’, all … are E. anthura …’
Pale shell-pink (H16) flowers, IX–XI, larger than normal, in long arching sprays, scented; mid-green foliage; broad and rather open habit; height 46–60cm; spread to more than 1m.
Flowers heliotrope, with lilac-pink calyx; IX–X; foliage mustard-yellow in spring, becoming brighter in wearly summer before fading to golden green by early winter.
A sport (found in 1998 by R. Canovan (Toothill, Swindon)) on unnamed plant collected in Dalmatia by A. W. Jones.
Named from the spring foliage colour is close to oil-seed rape; but with the old foliage being greenish and the red stem it looks like mustard pickle.
Registered on 23 July 2002 by R. Canovan.
Correct name ‘Cascades‘
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, VII–IX, semi-double; mid-green foliage; broad compact habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found in their garden by Mr & Mrs W. D. Frearson (Coventry, Warwickshire, England) in 1970.
Named after the finders’ daughter.
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, VII–IX, profuse, semi-double; mid-grey-green foliage; most hairs without glandular tips; erect habit; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm.
Wild-collected; a clone derived from the small population of E. mackaiana that grows near Carna, County Galway, Ireland, collected by Miss M. J. P. Scannell in 1970; introduced by Lawsons & Sons (Edinburgh, Scotland) in 1975.
Named by D. McClintock after Miss Maura Scannell, who collected it; former Head of The Herbarium, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.
Magenta (H14) flowers, VII–X, double and packed with extra “petals” to the point of bursting; dark green foliage; neat habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Suitable for ground-cover.
Wild-collected; found in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, on more than one occasion during the last 130 years; the clone in cultivation was gathered in 1901 by Dr F. C. Crawford, but there is an earlier record (by A. G. More in 1869).
Named from plenus = full (i.e. double-flowered). The earliest names for this clone were ‘Crawfordii’, followed by ‘Flore Pleno’, but it may be argued that neither was validly published.
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, VII–IX; dark green foliage; spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. This is fairly typical of the plants of Mackay’s heath seen in Connemara, and it is named after the schoolmaster who first drew the attention of botanists to this species in the 1830s. However, there is no evidence it has any direct connection with him. Often listed as ‘William M’Calla’.
