Heathers

Clear rose-pink (H7) flowers; VI-X; dark green foliage; Compact spreading habit; height 31-45cm; spread 46-60cm.

Very large pink bells; VI-X; dark green foliage; open spreading habit; height 26-30cm; spread 46-60cm. Similar to ‘Cupido‘ but the flowers are larger.

Seedling; raised by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England).

Name is an allusion to the flower shape.

Pale lavender flowers with distinctive cerise, fleshy petaloid sepals; VII-IX; dark green foliage and an open, spreading habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. Very unusual.

Found on Errislannan Peninsula, south of Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

Deep ruby (H5) globose flowers with beetroot pedicels and sepals; VI-X; dark green foliage; open erect habit ; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. A seedling found by John Gilbert in his garden (Chaldon, Caterham, Surrey, England) which has, perhaps, the darkest flowers in this species. Registered 31 October 1998: J. Gilbert, 17 Heathway, Chaldon, Caterham, Surrey CR3 5DN, England.

Globular mauve (H2) flowers – the first flowers of the season open single but later ones are double and do not drop off when finished; VI-X; mid-green foliage; open sprawling habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm.

A fascinating plant, found by Dr Charles Nelson at Carna, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Named after the finder.

Cerise (H6) flowers; VII-X; dark green foliage; neat, low,compact habit; height 21-25cm; spread 31-45cm.

White to pale shell pink (H16) flowers; VI-X; dark green foliage; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm. Sport from ‘Bicolor‘ to which it may revert.

Sport; found and introduced in 1970 by P. G. Zwijnenburg (Boskoop, Netherlands).

The name has no special connotation.

Smoky pale crimson (H13) corollas are split into segments; VI-X; dark green foliage; spreading habit; height 26-30cm; spread 31-45cm.

An intriguing and attractive curiosity.