‘Hayesensis’

White flowers, VIII–IX, free-flowering; mid-green foliage; neat upright habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.

“Chance sedlings” found by Robert Hayes (Grasmere, Cumbria, England), and introduced by Geoffrey Hayes about 1900.

Named after the finder, Robert Hayes (Yearbook of The Heather Society 1971: 28). [NB Thomas Richard Hayes (1864-1927) is listed as a nurseryman at Lake Road, Keswick.]

‘H. E. Beale’

❁ Shell-pink (H16) flowers in long tapering spikes, VIII–XI; dark green foliage turning a drab green- brown in winter; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. Found in the New Forest, Hampshire, and named after the director of the famous Maxwell & Beale nursery.

‘Hebbe’

Pale lilac-pink (H11) flowers, VIII–IX; light green foliage, with yellow (and a hint of pink) shoot-tips in spring; broad upright habit; height 25cm; spread 40cm.

Deliberately raised in 1988 by Brita Johansson.

Hebbe was the nickname of a character in a Swedish television series about a rag-and-bone man, Albert, and his son, Herbert (“Hebbe”).

® C.2008:08 registered by Mrs Brita Johansson, Vargön, Sweden.

‘Heidberg’

Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage; low spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 21–25cm.

Found by F. Kircher (Germany) in 1955; introduced by Baumschule Wohlt (Germany) in 1968.

Named after a hospital in Hamburg/Langenhorn, Germany.

‘Heidesinfonie’

Pink (H8) flowers, VIII–X; dark green foliage, acquiring bronze tints in winter; strong erect habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.

‘Heidezwerg’

Heliotrope (H12) flowers, VIII–IX; soft green foliage; prostrate habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. Found by Fritz Kircher, former President of Gesellschaft der Heidefreunde.

‘Heike’

❁ Rose-pink flowers, IX–XI; dark green foliage which turns grey-green in winter; open erect habit; height 46–60cm; spread 61–75cm. It was found in 1980 on the nursery of Martin Zimmer at Wiesmoor, Germany, as a sport on ‘H. E. Beale’.