Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–X; bright bronze-red foliage in winter and spring, and light coppery orange in summer; height 26–30cm; spread 26–30cm. This plant is of Dutch origin, formerly called ‘Cuprea Select‘.
Month: September 2014
‘Tino’
Purplish red flowers, VII–IX, in numerous short spikes; yellowish green foliage; erect, compact; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm. Named after a grandchild of the finder
‘Tomentosa’
Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–IX, free-flowering; hairy, grey-green foliage; erect; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
‘Tomentosa Alba’
White flowers, VIII–IX; hairy, grey-green foliage; open erect habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Named from tomentosus = covered with short hairs; albus = white.
‘Tom Thumb’
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, VIII–IX; foliage green; moss-like, with minute leaves and stems, erect, slow-growing; height 10–15cm; spread 10–15cm.
Introduced by Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset, England) in 1936.
Named after the fictional character, a tiny hero; alluding to the cultivar’s size.
‘Torogay’
Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage with young shoots tipped cream, pink, red, orange and copper in spring; bushy; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Wild-collected; found on North Uist, Scotland, by Miss M. Laird (Ledbury, Herefordshire, England); introduced by Jack Drake (Inshriach Nursery, Aviemore, Inverness-shire, Scotland) by 1969.
Named after the house belonging to the sister of the finder.
‘Torulosa’
White flowers, VIII–IX, on long, slender curving stems; bright mid-green foliage; loose bushy habit; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm.
Named from torulosus = with bulges or contractions at intervals.
‘Tremans’
Mauve (H2) flowers, IX–X; mid-green foliage; vigorous, upright; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling; found in Geoffrey Pilkington’s garden, Tremans (Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England) about 1950. Seen by Will Ingwersen, and once thought to have been the true Ingwersen clone ‘Elegantissima‘.
Named after Geoffrey Pilkington’s house, where it was found.
‘Tricolorifolia’
Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–IX; chocolate-brown foliage in winter, dark green with pink-cream shoot tips in spring, green the rest of the year; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm.
‘Sabrina’
❁ Shell-pink (H16) flowers, VIII–IX; mid-green foliage; broad erect habit; height 16–20cm; spread 26–30cm.