Heliotrope flowers, VI–VII; dark grey-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 26-30cm. Attractive plant.
Heathers
‘Formentor’
White flowers in racemes to 7cm long, pedicels white, c. 1cm long, with 3 bracts about 3mm from base, sepals ovate, aristate, glabrous, white, 2-2. 5mm long, 1mm wide; corolla single, ovate to campanulate, white, 3.5mm long, 2mm wide; IX–XI, each one on a long, delicate arching stalk; anthers tan; foliage light green throughout the year, mature foliage light green in summer, mid-green at other seasons, leaves linear, acute, glabrous, c. 8mm long,
1mm wide ; compact rounded habit; height 75-100cm; spread 75-100cm.. Collected by D. J. Small between Casa Vegas and Hotel Formentor, Cap de Formentor, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, on 19 December 1984. Hardy; surviving –8ºC without damage.
Registered 31December 1997: D. J. Small, Denbeigh, All Saints Road, Greeting St Mary, Ipswich , Suffolk IP6 8PJ, England.
‘Castellar Blush’
Pale pink flowers, IV–VI; mid-green foliage; tall, rather open habit; height at least 1m; spread 75–100cm.
‘Holehird’
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, IV–VI, slightly larger than those of ‘Riverslea‘; height at least 1m; spread 75–100cm. From the Lakeland Horticultural Society’s garden, Holehird, at Windermere, Cumbria.
‘Riverslea’
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, IV–VI; dark green foliage; height at least 1m; spread 75–100cm. Outstanding, but requires to be well pruned to avoid it becoming straggly.
Possible seedling; found by Aubrey Pritchard (Maurice Pritchard & Sons, Riverslea Nursery, Christchurch, Hampshire, England), and introduced by Pritchard’s Nursery before 1946. Also available from Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset) in 1946.
Riverslea was the name of Pritchard’s nursery. It is one word, not two
‘Trisha’
❁ Semi-double (the corolla has up to 6(–9) lobes) lilac-pink (H11) flowers, with <9 unequal, free sepals; bract and bracteoles stained dark red; III–V; foliage sage-green; bushy, well-branched, erect habit. Seedling raised by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany) and selected for naming by David Edge (Forest Edge Nurseries, Dorset).
Named after Trisha Hardy, manageress at Forest Edge Nurseries.
® E.2007.01 registered 10 January 2007 by David Edge, Forest Edge Nurseries, Woodlands, Wimborne, Dorset.
‘Holehird White’
IV–V, flowers with pale green, downy sepals, and dark brown anthers; dark green foliage; erect; height at least 1m; spread 75–100cm. A sport on ‘Holehird‘ from the Lakeland Horticultural Society’s garden at Windermere, Cumbria; discovered by Russel Hope Simpson in 1987
‘Mr Robert’
Flowers white;IV–VI; light green foliage; loose, upright habit; height at least 1m; spread 75–100cm. One of the finest of all heathers.
Collected by Lieut. Robert Williams (Caerhays, Cornwall) at Algeciras in southern Spain.
Named after Robert Williams. Lieutenant Williams was killed early in during World War I. (2nd Lieut R Williams (2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards), buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, died 8 October 1915, in Battle of Loos.)
‘Rudi’
Rose-pink, urn-shaped flowers, VI-XI; foliage mid-green, with orange-red tips to young shoots in spring, leaves 5.5mm long; height 16-20cm; spread 31-45cm. Seedling from the deliberate cross selected by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany) and named after the Dutch comedian, Rudi Karell. Registered on 13 October 2002 by K. Kramer.
‘Otto’
Rose-pink, cup-shaped flowers, with sides parallel and without noticeable constriction below lobes, 4.2 mm; ovary squat, obovoid, 1.3mm long, 1 mm across; filament 1.5mm long, anther 1 mm long; style (when not malformed) 6mm long; VI-XI; foliage mid-green, with orange-red tips to young shoots in spring; leaves 4mm long; height 16-20cm; spread 31-45cm. Seedling from the original cross between Erica spiculifolia and Erica carnea in 1987; raised in 1990 selected by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany) and named after the German comedian, Otto Waalkes. Registered on 13 October 2002 by K. Kramer.