Very nice bright yellow and tightly upright and distinct from ‘Estrella Gold‘; more floriferous than ‘Albert’s Gold‘ and easier to propagate.
Sport on Erica arborea ‘Alpina’, found by Chrystal Joy Gillingham in 2004 at Wilson’s Nursery Ltd, Chilliwack.
® E.2008:10 registered on 29 November 2008 by Wilson’s Nursery Ltd, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Flower buds bright dark pink, contrasting with pale yellow-green foliage, opening white; foliage yellow, fine; habit upright.
Seedling raised by Helmut Hiedl (Altusried, Germany). Resistant to Pestalotiopsis (an endophytic fungus that attacks heathers); suitable for cultivation under glass.
Pink (H8) flowers, II–IV; yellow-gold foliage in summer, turning bronze in winter; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm. Resembles ‘Jack H. Brummage‘, but slower growing and foliage darker and more colourful in benign environments. Recommended.
A seedling found by Peter J. Foley (Holden Clough Nursery, Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire, England) by 1980; introduced by Holden Clough Nursery in 1984.
Named after Mr & Mrs Foley’s [then] new baby daughter.
Pink flowers (H8), corolla urn-shaped, 6mm, sepals the same colour, anthers very dark maroon; XII– ? III; dark green foliage; upright and compact; after 3 years, height about 30cm; spread 15cm but likely to get taller.
An early blooming clone, as yet not named, which starts to show colour in November and has mature flowers in December.
A good garden-worthy plant, wild-collected at Mulranny, County Mayo, by David Edge.
A hybrid between the bell heather (Erica cinerea) and the Corsican heath (Erica terminalis) which was first reported to have been created by Georg Arends. Kurt Kramer also succeeded in producing the same cross and extant clones represent
Blooms throughout autumn and winter into early spring.
One of the clones from Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany), named after a borough in Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Toponym: Charnwood is the Loughborough borough in which the Halls’ garden is situated. The Borough of Charnwood is named after the ancient Charnwood Forest. The Oxford dictionary of English place names gives the mediaeval version of Charnwood as “Cernewoda” meaning “Wood in a rocky country”.
Seedling; raised by C. J. Marchant (Stapehill, Wimborne, Dorset, England); introduced by C. J. Marchant by 1954.
Named after the place where it was raised.
Sprawling or compact shrub, to 40cm (16in) tall, spreading to 70cm (28in); leaves glossy, dark green 1.5cm (2/3in) long, 6mm (¼in) wide; flowers about 1cm (3/8in) long, usually lavender, summer to autumn. Suitable for USDA zone 6 with protection but some winter damage can occur if planted in heavy ground or frost pockets.
Flowers the same colour as ‘Amelie‘ (red); a favourite with buyers at the recent Hampton Court show.
Selected by Johannes van Leuven in August 2007 from 15,000 seedlings.
Named, with her consent, after the actress Andrea Sawatzki.
® D.2009:02 registered on 19 August 2009 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldem-Lullingen, Germany.
Cerise (H6) flowers, the buds are salmon-coloured; grey-green foliage.
Collected at West End, Woking, Surrey.
Named after George Underwood’s brother, Leslie.
Image courtesy of David Brown.
Flowers single, in groups of four at tips of shoots, flowering shoots very densely crowded towards ends of branches; corolla c. 9mm long, white, slightly curved, widening towards mouth; calyx segments unequal, with broad translucent margins and pale green mid-rib, lobes c. 3mm long, c. 1.5mm broad; anthers brown; style to 9mm long prominently emerging from corolla, style end green when fresh; nectar profuse.
Seedling 05-2-20 raised by K. Kramer in 2005, F2 seedling of self-pollinated ‘Mr Robert‘. Selected and named by David Edge in 2016 after cultivation in Forest Edge Nurseries. Hardier than other clones of E. australis having survived a frost test as a seedling in Germany. Distinguished from ‘Mr Robert’ and ‘Holehird White’ by green style end.
Image courtesy of David Brown.
Large magenta (H14) flowers with dark bronze-green foliage;
Sport from Erica x darleyensis ‘Kramer’s Rote‘, so it was re-named ‘Lena’ whilst on test; granted 17 May 2000.
Image taken on a snowy day in my garden, Early March, this year. David Brown
