Correct name Erica carnea ‘Treasure Trove’
Month: September 2014
‘Atrorubra’
Deep pink (H8) flowers, I–V; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; introduced (as E. herbacea) by Jongkindt-Coninck (Dedemsvaart, Netherlands); introduced by 1919.
Named from atro- = dark; ruber = red.
‘Beoley Pink’
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, II–IV, very abundant; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Possible seedling; found by J. W. Sparkes (Beechwood Nursery, Beoley, Redditch, Worcestershire, England); introduced by J. W. Sparkes by 1971.
Named after the Worcestershire village near Sparkes’ nursery.
‘Carnea’
Shell-pink (H16) flowers darken to lilac-pink (H11), III–IV; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Introduced by 1820; Loudon listed it in 1830.
Named after the latin carneus = flesh-coloured.
‘Catherine Kolster’
Deep rose-pink flowers, I–III; dark green foliage with a bronze hue; vigorous, open, spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm. Named after Mrs Catherine Kolster, the finder’s wife.
‘Challenger’
Magenta (H14) flowers with crimson (H13) sepals, I–IV; dark bronze-green foliage; broad spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Introduced by H. van Gemeren & S. C. van der Wilt (Boskoop, Netherlands) in 1986.
It is perceived as a challenge to ‘Myretoun Ruby‘ which it is!
‘Christine Fletcher’
Shell-pink (H16) flowers darkening to heliotrope (H12), III–IV; dark green foliage; moderate spreader; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling; introduced by Messrs R. V. Roger Ltd (Pickering, Yorkshire, England) by 1982.
Named after the wife of J. C. Fletcher, heather foreman at R. V. Rogers Ltd. (Pickering, Yorkshire).
‘C. J. Backhouse’
Pale lavender (H3) flowers, III–IV; mid-green foliage; moderate spreader; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
‘Clare Wilkinson’
Shell-pink (H16) flowers, I–V, in long spikes, profuse; mid-green foliage; vigorous trailing habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found in 1976.
Named after a great-grandmother of the Simmersons.
‘David’s Seedling’
Pink (H8) flowers darkening to heliotrope (H12), XII–V, abundant; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm. A good floriferous heather.
Seedling; found by David McClintock in his garden at Bracken Hill (Platt, Kent, England) about 1960, and exhibited by him in the late 1960s; rooted and subsequently shown by Jack London (Norfolk) at Royal Horticultural Society shows in 1975 and 1980.
Named after David McClintock, President of The Heather Society.