Free-flowering; amethyst (H1) flowers; VI-XI; dark green foliage; road spreading habit; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm.
Selected from a bed of about 600 seedlings raised from open-pollinated Daboecia x scotica ‘William Buchanan’ by Peter Davis. Thus its correct name is also Daboecia x scotica and not Daboecia cantabrica (H. Blum unpublished).
Named after Barbara, wife of Brigadier C. F. Lucas-Phillips.
White and beetroot (H9) flowers, some striped, often found on the same stem; V!-XI; mid-green foliage; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm.
No history has been traced; as Menziesia polifolia variicolor, it was cultivated by Waterer as early as 1874.
Named from bicolor = two-coloured.
Clear rose-pink (H7) flowers; VI-X; dark green foliage; Compact spreading habit; height 31-45cm; spread 46-60cm.
Very large pink bells; VI-X; dark green foliage; open spreading habit; height 26-30cm; spread 46-60cm. Similar to ‘Cupido‘ but the flowers are larger.
Seedling; raised by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England).
Name is an allusion to the flower shape.
Pale lavender flowers with distinctive cerise, fleshy petaloid sepals; VII-IX; dark green foliage and an open, spreading habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. Very unusual.
Found on Errislannan Peninsula, south of Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
Deep ruby (H5) globose flowers with beetroot pedicels and sepals; VI-X; dark green foliage; open erect habit ; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. A seedling found by John Gilbert in his garden (Chaldon, Caterham, Surrey, England) which has, perhaps, the darkest flowers in this species. Registered 31 October 1998: J. Gilbert, 17 Heathway, Chaldon, Caterham, Surrey CR3 5DN, England.
Globular mauve (H2) flowers – the first flowers of the season open single but later ones are double and do not drop off when finished; VI-X; mid-green foliage; open sprawling habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm.
A fascinating plant, found by Dr Charles Nelson at Carna, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Named after the finder.
Cerise (H6) flowers; VII-X; dark green foliage; neat, low,compact habit; height 21-25cm; spread 31-45cm.
White to pale shell pink (H16) flowers; VI-X; dark green foliage; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. Sport from ‘Bicolor‘ to which it may revert.
Sport; found and introduced in 1970 by P. G. Zwijnenburg (Boskoop, Netherlands).
The name has no special connotation.
Amethyst flowers; VI-IX; lime-green foliage; open, spreading habit; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm. From Cleggan, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
