Very large (to 2cm long) white flowers; VI-X; foliage large, fresh green; height to 80cm; spread to 1m. Seedling raised and selected at Berrydown Nurseries, Gidleigh, Devon, England; introduced by 1994.
Month: September 2014
‘White Blum’
White flowers; VII-X; bright green foliage; narrow erect habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. One of the best whites.
‘White Carpet’
White flowers; VI-X; bright green foliage; spreading habit; height 10-15cm; spread 46-60cm.
a. blumii
Flowers facing upwards, not nodding. A variant first noticed by Herman Blum, Steenwijkerwold, Netherlands, and named after him.
‘Pink Blum’
Heliotrope (H12) flowers; VII-X; dark green foliage; open untidy habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm.
‘Purple Blum’
Purple flowers; VII-X; foliage dark green; habit erect; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. A chance seedling found in 1983 by H. M. J. Blum, Steenwijkerwold, Netherlands. Named from the flower colour and the finder’s surname. Registered on 39 October 2002 by J. G. Flecken and G. van Hoef.
a. cantabrica
Flowers never white, but pale pink to dark purple, usually lavender in the wild, and always nodding.
‘Amelie’
Red flowers with green calyx; VI-X; dark green foliage; broad, upright habit. A result of deliberate breeding by Kurt Kramer, this cultivar promises to be better than all other ‘red’ Daboecia.
‘Arielle’
Large, glowing magenta (H14) flowers; VII-X; dark green foliage; compact robust upright habit; height 26-30cm; spread 46-60cm. The flowers are larger than ‘Waley’s Red‘ and slightly darker particularly near the base of the corolla.
Seedling; raised, selected and introduced by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany); introduced in 1995. Clone DAB 1; submitted for plant breeders’ rights in Germany on 21 July 1994.
A fantasy name.
‘Atropurpurea’
Deep purple (H10) flowers; VI-X; dark green glossy foliage; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm. There is more than one clone sold under this name.