White flowers; XII–V; dark green foliage; compact habit; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm.
Introduced, as Erica carnea, by C. E. J. Stibbington (St Albans, Hertfordshire, England) by 1960.
Name derivation unknown
Month: September 2014
‘Bing’
White flowers; XI–III; large (to 6mm long) flowers; mid-green foliage; strong but compact habit; height 35cm; spread 60cm.
Deliberately raised by Peter Bingham (Gedney, Lincolnshire).
Named after one of his sons, Mark (his nickname is Bing).
® E.2007:13 registered in 2007 by Peter Bingham, Gedney, Lincolnshire, UK.
‘Dunreggan’
Flowers white, free flowering; I-V: foliage mid-green; compact habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
An improvement on ‘Silberschmelze‘ from which it was a sport; found by J. Wilson (Oliver & Hunter, Moniaive, Dumfries, Scotland); introduced by Oliver & Hunter in 1978.
Named after a locality in Dumfriesshire, in the Moniaive area. Originally named ‘Snowdrift’, a name already in use in this denomination group.
‘N. R. Webster’
White flowers; XII–IV; dark green foliage; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm. Similar to ‘Silberschmelze’ but blooms slightly earlier.
Seedling; found by N. R. Webster at his former home, Glencairn, Elgin, Scotland, before 1954; introduced by Slieve Donard Nursery (Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland) by 1960.
Named after Norman Webster (this is the correct name, not ‘Norman R. Webster’). Note: This is difficult to distinguish from Erica x darleyensis ‘Silberschmelze‘.
‘Silberschmelze’
Ashen white flowers; XII–V; mid-green foliage, the young shoots with cream tips in spring; height 31–45cm; spread 75–100cm.
Sport on Erica mediterranea hybrida (i.e. Erica x darleyensis ‘Darley Dale’); found by Georg Arends (Wuppertal, Germany), and introduced by Arends in 1937.
See Yearbook of The Heather Society 3 (2): 57-66 (1984).
The name means “molten silver” (but should not be translated).
‘White Fairy’
XI–IV, silvery white; fresh green foliage; compact spreading habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
A sport from ‘Kramers Rote‘, found in 1996 in the nursery of Boomkwekerijen Hoekert BV (Oldebroek, Netherlands).
Name alludes to the flower colour.
‘White Glow’
Flowers white; XII–V; mid-green foliage sulphur coloured in summer; habit stiff bushy; height 21–25cm; spread 46–60cm. Outstanding.
A chance seedling, mistakenly introduced as Erica carnea by Jack Drake (Aviemore, Inverness-shire, Scotland) by 1966. Now Classified as Erica x darleyensis f. aureifolia ‘White Glow’.
Name alludes to the flower colour.
‘White Perfection’
Pure white flowers; XII–IV; bright green foliage, the young shoots tipped yellow in spring; erect; height 31–45cm; spread 61–75cm. Calyx lobes almost as long as corolla; sepals c. 4mm, corolla c. 4.5mm; bract & bracteoles above midpoint of peduncle; anthers tan, partly included [spec. in herb P G Turpin, grown at Cottswood 22 January 1981].
Outstanding – best of the white Darley Dale heaths.
Sport on ‘Silberschmelze‘; found by H. Knol (Gorssel, Netherlands); introduced by Knol about 1972. Listed by Heinz Schlangen (Westermoorstr. 33, 26683 Saterland/Scharrel, Germany) as “White Perfektion”.
Name alludes to the flower colour.
‘Anja Blum’
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage; upright; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm. Named after Herman Blum’s third daughter.
‘Schizopetala’
Pale mauve (H2) flowers, VII–VIII; mid-green foliage; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm. An unusual plant having ragged, split flowers.
Wild-collected; one clone was found by T. W. Hazleby in 1912 at Ringwood in Hampshire, England, but it is not certain whether this clone is Hazleby’s.
Named from Greek; schizo- = split; petalus = petal.