♤ Bud bloomer, buds grade 4, medium purple red, RHS 64C to 67A; VIII-X; foliage middle green; habit upright, bushy; height 25–30cm; spread 30–40cm.
Sport on Calluna vulgaris ‘Elisa‘ found by Kurt Kramer, Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany.
Garden Girls Series late line
EU plant breeders rights given on 21.06.2021
♤ White buds grade 4, RHS 155C;VII–IX; foliage yellow green; habit creeping ; height 5-10 cm, spread 20-30 cm. Rasta Girls series.
Girls name.
Applied for by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany, nursery name “Gelber Knospenzwerg” on 02.07.2020. CPVO 5.2020 15/10/2020
Kurt Kramer plant breeders rights given on 20.06.2022. CPVO 4.2022 15/08/2022
♤ Budbloomer, big buds grade 6, dark blue pink RHS 71D to 72D; VIII–X; foliage light green; habit upright, bushy; height 25–30cm; spread 30–40cm.
Sport on ‘Mary Rose‘, found by Armin Klose.
Garden Girls series
Applied for by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 12.03.2019. CPVO 5.2019 15/10/2019
Kurt Kramer EU plant breeders rights given on 21.06.2021. CPVO 4.2021 15/08/2021
♤ Big buds grade 6, medium purple red, RHS 63A; VIII–X; foliage medium green; habit upright, bushy; height 25-30cm; spread 30–40cm.
Girls name.
Garden Girls Late series.
Bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 02.07.2020. CPVO 5.2020 15/10/2020
Kurt Kramer (15-87-8) EU plant breeders rights given on 5.09.2022. CPVO 6.2022 15/12/2022
♤ Buds grade 5, dark purple red RHS 060A; VII–VIII; foliage dark green; habit upright, bushy; height 25–30cm; spread 30–40cm.
Girls name.
Sport on Loki, but more red, found by Georg Münster, Geldern-Lüllingen.
Garden Girls Summer Line variety.
Bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 08.11.2017. CPVO 1.2018 15/02/2018
Kurt Kramer EU plant breeders rights given on 6.05.2019. CPVO 4.2019 15/08/2019
♤ Budbloomer VII–XI; big buds grade 6, mauve RHS 68A light green foliage; upright, bushy habit; height 25–30cm; spread 30–40cm.
Girls Name.
Bred by Kurt Kramer (K 12-73-7) Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 08.08.2016. CPVO 5.2016 15/10/2016
Kurt Kramer EU plant breeders rights given on 10.09.2018. CPVO 6.2018 15/12/2018
Flowers, large magenta (H14); V1-IX; foliage grey-green; erect habit; height 20cm; spread 35cm.
Evergreen, upright, bushy shrub; to 0.5m tall (depending on pruning regime).
Foliage dark brown-green, young growth tinged dark red.
Leaves linear, to 6mm, <0.5mm broad.
Flowers white, buds dull red; tubular, to 5mm long; in raceme-like clusters, florets in threes or in pairs; style becoming emergent, + straight; style-end tinged red; ovary + cylindrical, c. 2.5mm long, glabrous; seed not formed; calyx lobes 4, rarely two dorsal lobes fused; stamens 8, included; filaments with sigmoid bend below anther; anthers dark red, with amber awns; pollen not formed; nectar evident in base of corolla but no conspicuous nectary ring.
The foliage of Erica x vanleuvenii is much finer than in the parent heathers.
Unlike clones of other hybrid heaths, ‘Dark Star’ does not have the colourful (discoloured) young shoots (“spring tips”).
Dunkelgrün, sehr buschig mit dicht besetzten Trieben, gute Blüte im Alter von zwei Jahren, winterhart, robust.
Dark green, very bushy with densely populated shoots, good flowering at the age of two years. “The best dark green seedling I found, my favourite.”
Deliberately raised seedling from self-pollinated E. arborea ‘Albert’s Gold’, cross made by Johannes van Leuven in May 2011; selected October 2013.
Originally registered under the name Erica arborea ‘Grüner Favorit’ ® E.2016:09. Registered on 29th December 2016 by Johannes van Leuven (Geldern, Germany).
Pink, tubular, sticky flowers with pale green lobes: VI-IX; erect sparsely-branched shrub with a long slender stems; height up to 1.8m. Found in sandy, rocky slopes.
Named from Latin: fasciculatus = in clusters or bundles; referring to the arrangement of the flowers.
