Lavender (H3) flowers, VII–IX; yellow foliage in summer, deepening to orange-flame in the autumn; erect; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Raised by John F. Letts (Westwood Road, Windlesham, Surrey, England); introduced by Clive Baula (Hardwicks Nurseries, Newick, Sussex) in 1978.
Name alludes to the foliage colours.
Mauve-rose (H2) flowers, VIII–IX; light yellow-orange foliage throughout the year; upright but spreading; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Found and introduced in 1986 by Darthuizer Boomkwekerijen, Leersum, Netherlands.
Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage, new spring shoots are pinkish red (redder than ‘Spring Torch‘); height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Mauve (H2) flowers, VIII–IX; bright green foliage; forms an appealing neat hummock of tightly packed shoots but flowers are very sparse; height 10–15cm; spread 16–20cm.
❁ Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–X; dark green foliage; neat habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
The history of double-flowered Calluna vulgaris is very complicated; William Curtis (Brompton, London, England) apparently had a plant as early as 1789. The name ‘Flore Pleno’ appears to have been first published in France in 1814.
Named from flos = flower; plenus = double. It is at least debatable that the name ‘Flore Pleno’ is not now properly applied.
White flowers, VIII–IX; bright green foliage; prostrate habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. One of the St Kilda heathers.
White flowers, VIII–IX; yellow-green foliage; compact, erect; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found on Haythorne Nursery (Verwood, Dorset, England) by Mrs W. E. S. Bamford in 1990.
Named after the mother of the finder.
❁ Shell-pink flowers, VIII–IX; yellow-tipped shoots; compact; height 10–15cm; spread 21–25cm. Less vigorous than ‘County Wicklow‘, from which it was a sport. Named after the finder’s youngest son.
Mauve (H2) flowers, VIII–X; mid-green foliage, with salmon-tipped shoots in spring and throughout the summer; broad upright habit; height 40cm; spread 45cm. Seedling found by David Edge (Forest Edge Nurseries, Verwood, Dorset). The name alludes to the yellow /orange /red tips to new growth, linked with nursery name.
® C04:2004 registered November 2004 by David Edge, Forest Edge Nurseries, Wimborne, Dorset, UK.
Pale purple (H10) flowers; VIII–IX; foliage yellow; habit low and spreading; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling found under ‘Foxhollow Wanderer‘ by Homer Ferguson (Fort Bragg, California, USA) in 1994. Registered 31 August 1999: Homer L. Ferguson, 19051 Babcock Lane, Fort Bragg, CA 95437, USA.
Named after the Californian town where it was found.
