Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage; forms a prostrate mat; height less than 10cm; spread 31–45cm. Named after the author of first Irish Flora, who came from Threlkeld in Cumberland.
Heathers
‘Calf of Man’
White flowers, VIII–IX; bright green foliage; prostrate habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. Very like ‘White Carpet’.
‘Californian Midge’
Lavender (H3) flowers, VII–X; emerald green foliage; forms a neat, tight green mound; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
From the USA; introduced to Europe by F. J. Chapple (Port Erin, Isle of Man) by 1960; ‘a curiosity sent to me from a reader in California’.
Named after the state in the USA whence it came, and its diminutive habit.
‘Camla’
❁ Shell-pink (H16) flowers in short erect spikes, IX–X; dark green foliage; height 30cm; spread 40cm. Found by F. W. Millard (Camla, East Grinstead, Sussex, England) about 1934. Camla is in County Monaghan, Ireland.
‘Carl Röders’
❁ Heliotrope (H12) flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage; erect habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
‘Carmen’
Crimson (H13) flowers, produced profusely, VIII–IX; dark green foliage; open, vigorous habit; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Sport on ‘Barnett Anley‘; found by C. Bouter (Boskoop, Netherlands); introduced by C. Bouter in 1968.; similar in colour to ‘Darkness‘.
‘Carngold’
Mauve flowers, VIII–IX; bright golden yellow foliage; neat upright habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. Found at Carn Nursery, Northern Ireland, as a sport on ‘Boskoop’. One of the best yellow-foliaged cultivars of Calluna vulgaris.
‘Carole Chapman’
White flowers, VIII–X; yellow foliage throughout the year; slow growing; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Found by J. W. Sparkes (Beechwood Nursery, Beoley, Redditch, Worcestershire, England); introduced by J. W. Sparkes about 1966.
Named after the third child of Charlie Chapman, Director of J. V. White of Birmingham, England
‘Carolyn’
Purple (H10) flowers, VIII–X; mid-green foliage; compact, upright habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.
Found by Dr Ir T. Visser (Wageningen Netherlands); introduced by W. Haalboom & Zonen (Driebergen, Netherlands) in 1972.
Named after Dr Visser’s daughter.
‘Cassa’
Rose-pink (H7) flowers, VIII–IX; light green foliage; new growth in spring has pretty yellow and red tips; broad upright habit; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm. Young plants have coloured foliage in autumn.
Seedling; selected in 1992 from seedlings of ‘Spring Torch’ crossed with other cultivars, at A. Bosch’s nursery (Westerlee, Groningen, Netherlands); named and introduced by A. Bosch in 1995-1996.
“Cassa” means cash (money) in Dutch – it sells well!