Month: September 2014

Flowers dark pink (H5) flowers, II–IV; foliage dark; habit compact; height 15cm; spread 20cm, two years old plants.

Seedling from crosses selected by Kurt Kramer,

Recorded and bred by Kurt Kramer, Edammer Straße 26, D-26188, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany. 25.10.2001.

Kurt Kramer, EU PBR given on 08.06.2004

Heliotrope (H12) flowers, III–IV; grey-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 21–25cm.

Wild-collected; found in Switzerland by Richard Potter of Backhouse Nurseries; introduced by Backhouse Nurseries (York) Ltd. in 1911.

Salmon (H15) flowers, II–IV; mid-green foliage; compact twiggy habit, slow growing; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Recommended. Distinctive colour break amongst winter heaths.

Heliotrope (H12) flowers that darken to magenta (H14), I–V; dark green foliage with distinct bronze tinge; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.

Although still popular, ‘Adrienne Duncan‘ is more reliable.

Collected in the Engadive Alps, Switzerland, by Paul Theoholdt in 1906; introduced by Theoboldt (Aulendorf, Wurttemberg, Germany) in 1909.

named after the head of Theoboldt’s former firm, Adolf Vivell (1878–1959), a landscape architect of Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Magenta (H14) flowers, II–IV, abundant; mid-green foliage; neat but vigorous spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.

Seedling; found at Nagel Nursery (Bretten, Germany) in 1982.

Magenta (H14) flowers, I–III; dark green foliage, young shoots tinged pink in spring; neat habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.

Seedling; introduced by Pennyacre Nurseries (Springfield, Fife, Scotland) by 1976.

White flowers becoming suffused with pale pink, II–III; mid-green foliage; open spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm.

A sport from ‘March Seedling‘ found by R. Bratfisch in Germany before 1986.

Plants traded under the name Erica carnea “Margaret Benson” may be indistinguishable from this cultivar.