White flowers, VII–IX; yellow-green foliage; upright; height 21–25cm; spread 21–25cm. It is smaller and more upright than ‘Kermit‘.
Found by A. Bosch (Westerlee, Groningen, Netherlands) before 1986.
Named after the village where the introducing nursery was situated.
Lavender flowers, IX–X; dark green foliage; upright; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Found in Germany before 1967; introduced by Daystar (Litchfield, Maine, USA) by 1982.
Named after the German province.
Correct name ‘Alba Plena‘
White flowers, VIII–IX; bright green foliage; prostrate; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Very similar to ‘Calf of Man’, the islet where both were found.
Wild-collected; found on Calf of Man by Fred J. Chapple; introduced by Slieve Donard Nursery (Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland) by 1970.
Name alludes to the habit and flower colour.
❁ White flowers, VIII–IX; bright green foliage even in winter; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm. Differs from ‘Kinlochruel‘ from which it was a sport by the green winter foliage.
Sport on ‘Kinlochruel’; found by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany) about 1984; introduced by Kramer in 1990. The same sport has occurred elsewhere too; Herman Blum found it in the heather garden at “De Voorzienigheid”, Steenwijkerwold, also in 1983.
Name alludes to the flower colour.
White flowers, VIII–IX; gold foliage in summer deepening to orange in winter; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. Sometimes reverts to ‘Orange Queen‘ from which it was a sport.
White flowers, IX–X, on long shoots; downy, grey-green foliage; very vigorous; height 61–75cm; spread 75–100cm.
White flowers, VIII–IX, in long spikes; clear green foliage; completely prostrate; height < 10cm; spread 31–45cm. Distinctive.
Wild-collected; found near Loch Fyne, Argyll, Scotland, by Mr Graham, a forester, during the 1930s; named by David McClintock in 1977; introduced commercially by J. Hall (Windlesham Court Nursery, Surrey, England) by 1978.
Name alludes to the flower colour and habit.
White flowers, VII–IX; bright green foliage; compact; height 16–20cm; spread 21–25cm. Found at 1,000m altitude on Sgoran Dubh, Cairngorms, Scotland. Early to come into bloom.
White flowers, VIII–IX, free-flowering; light green foliage; erect compact habit; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Sport from ‘Darkness‘; found by H. Hoekert (Oldebroek, Netherlands) in 1980; introduced by Hoekert in 1983.
A pun on the name ‘Darkness’, alluding to the white flowers.
