Lilac-pink (H11) flowers; VI-XI; glossy dark green foliage; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Month: September 2014
‘Ben’
Amethyst (H1) flowers; V-IX; dark green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Everything about this plant is diminutive, tiny glossy leaves, small flowers and a very neat habit. A must for the sink or trough garden.
Seedling; raised by Mr M. H. Lunn in 1989 and introduced in 1991 by Crail Nurseries (Newstead Abbey Park, Nottinghamshire, England).
Named after the Lunns’ King Charles spaniel.
f. alba
White flowers.
‘Alba ‘
More than one white-flowered clone is in cultivation under this name; VI-X; given this mixture these would best be labelled Daboecia cantabrica f. alba unless they can definitely be identified as a named cultivar.
‘Alba Globosa’
White, globular flowers; VI-IX; mid-green foliage; compact habit; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm.
‘Bellita’
White flowers; VI-IX; light green foliage; height 35cm; spread 60cm. More compact than many of the other whites with smaller flowers but it is much more floriferous.
Seedling; raised, selected and introduce by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht-Siiddorf, Germany, by 1992. Ref: Ericultura 87: 22 (1992).
A fantasy name.
‘Creeping White’
White flowers; VI-X; bright green foliage; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. The habit is not so prostrate as the name suggests.
‘David Moss’
Free-flowering, white; VI-X; dark glossy green foliage; height 31-45cm; spread 31-45cm.
Presumably a seedling; named and introduced by W. Moss (Afonwen, Mold, Flintshire, Wales).
Named after W. Moss’s son.
‘Early Bride’
Correct name ‘April Fool‘. See Supplement to International register of heather names – IV (2004) in Heathers 1: 64 (2004).
‘Snowdrift’
White flowers; VI-X; bright, mid-green foliage; broader in habit than ‘David Moss’ but equally floriferous; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm.
Seedling raised and introduced by 1971 by Messrs George Jackman (Woking, Surrey, England).
Name alludes to the flower colour.