Amethyst (H1) flowers; VIII-XII; dark green foliage; compact, neat and long flowering; height 16-20cm; spread 31-45cm.
Seedling; raised about 1973, named and introduced in 1977 by Geoff Yates (Tabramhill Gardens, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England).
Named after his daughter.
Amethyst (H1) buds opening to lavender (H3) flowers; VI-X; dark green foliage; broad,erect habit; height 31-45cm; spread 46-60cm.
Large amethyst (H1) flowers; V-XI; mid-green foliage; tall; height 31-45cm; spread 75-100cm. Useful for tall ground cover; blossoms for a long period (May to November).
Introduced by Underwood’s Nursery at Hookstone Green, Surrey, England.
Named after the Underwoods’ nursery, and the flower colour.
Upright shrub to 1.5m or more tall; branches ascending. Leaves to 6mm long. Flowers in terminal umbels of 2–4; calyx composed of 4 free pink or green sepals; corolla white changing to pink (H8/H11), about 5mm long, urn-shaped; stamens 8, included; anthers with spurs; style-end emergent.
Blooms irregularly through the year, mainly in spring and early summer.
An artificial hybrid, created deliberately in the 1980s by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany) by cross-pollinating Erica arborea ‘Alpina’ and Erica baccans.
Only the original (unnamed) clone is understood to be in cultivation but it is not commercially available.
Amethyst flowers; VII-XI; dark green, glossy foliage; erect habit. A chance seedling found by S. Ketelaar during summer 1994 in a garden at Nieuwegein, Netherlands. So named because it is an “Irish” heath with glossy leaves.
Heliotrope (H12) flowers; VI-X; dark green foliage; broad spreading to erect habit becoming very tall. A chance seedling found by Jos Flecken in 1998 in his garden at Kerkrade, Netherlands; named after John Doveren, his son-in-law, who is married to Colette Flecken after whom Calluna vulgaris ‘Colette‘ was named. Registered on 1 October 2002 by J. Flecken.
Large pale lavender (H3) flowers; VII-XI; mid-green foliage; height 31-45cm; spread 61-75cm.
Introduced by G. Osmond, Archfield Nursery, Wickwar, Wooton under Edge, Gloucestershire, England, before 1969.
Pale shell-pink (H16) flowers; VII-IX; mid-green foliage; rather open habit; height 31-45cm; spread 31-45cm. Similar to ‘Donard Pink‘; a sport from ‘Harlequin‘.
Large pale mauve (H2) flowers; VIII-XI; light greyish green foliage; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. An old selection well over 100 years old.
Small, tubular, dark beetroot (H9) flowers; V-IX; dark green foliage; neat bushy habit; height 26-30cm; spread 26-30cm. More of a curiosity than a garden-worthy plant.
