No Flowers; foliage light yellow; height 30cm; spread 25cm after 3 years.
Seedling raised by Kurt Kramer in 2004.
® C.2009:05 registered on 11 March 2009 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Applied for and bred by Kurt Kramer Edammer Str. 26, 26188 Edewecht, Germany on 28.08.2009. CPVO 6.2009 15/12/2009
EU plant breeders rights given on 22.03.2010. CPVO 3.2010 15/06/2010.
♤ Bud-flowerer, cerise (H6); IX-XII; foliage yellow turning dark green; hieght 25cm; spread 30cm after 3 years.
Sport on ‘Theresa‘, found by Kay Müssig (Engelbergweg, Miltenberg, Germany) in October 2006.
® C.2009:04 registered on 11 March 2009 by Kurt Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Recorded and bred by Kurt Kramer, Edammer Straße 26, D-26188, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany. 16.03.2009. CPVO 3.2009 15/06/2009
♤ Bud-flowerer, light pink; IX-XI; foliage silvery grey; habit upright; height 60cm; spread 50cm after 5 years.
Chance seedling, found by Johannes van Leuven at Geldem-Lullingen in September 2007. “‘Silvana’ is the first silver leaf bud heather.”
® C.2009:09 registered on 27 November 2009 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldem-Lullingen, Germany.
Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 07.12.2009. CPVO 1.2010 15/02/2010
Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 06.06.2011. CPVO 4.2011 15/08/2011
♤ Bud-flowerer, dark red; IX-XII; Habit bushy, upright; height 50cm after 5 years; spread 50cm. “Darker than ‘Angie‘.”
Sport on ‘Angie‘, found by Johannes van Leuven in September 2007.
® C.2009:08 registered on 27 November 2009 by Johannes van Leuven, Geldem-Liillingen, Germany.
Recorded and bred by Johannes van Leuven, Ilmenweg 39, 47608 Geldern, Germany. 20.11.2009. CPVO 1.2010 15/02/2010
Johannes van Leuven, EU PBR given on 06.06.2011. CPVO 4.2011 15/08/2011
Flowers white; III-V; foliage yellow-gold; habit upright. Very nice bright yellow and tightly upright and distinct from ‘Estrella Gold‘; more floriferous than ‘Albert’s Gold‘ and easier to propagate.
Sport on Erica arborea ‘Alpina’, found by Chrystal Joy Gillingham in 2004 at Wilson’s Nursery Ltd, Chilliwack.
® E.2008:10 registered on 29 November 2008 by Wilson’s Nursery Ltd, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Corolla pink; sepals red-brown, buds dark and flowers clear pink; XI-V; foliage dark green; habit loose, upright.
Selected seedling from the deliberate crossing in 1999 of Erica carnea ‘Treasure Trove‘ x Erica erigena ‘Irish Dusk‘; made, selected and named by David Wilson.
® E.2008:09 registered on 29 November 2008 by Wilson’s Nursery Ltd, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.
Named from flowering time; one of the parents was Erica carnea ‘Treasure Trove‘.
Rose-purple flowers, II–III; foliage tiny dark green leaves; very compact habit created by the many short side shoots; height 10–15cm; spread 16–20cm. It has the same habit as ‘Sneznik‘, only even more compact and with a stronger flower colour. The mini-flowers are densely packed.
Chance seedling in Brita Johansson’s garden: it “came up near to ‘Sneznik‘ 6 or 7 years ago”.
Arro is the name of one of Mrs Johansson’s daughter’s ferrets!
® E.2008:06 registered on 12 May 2008 by Brita Johansson, Vargon, Sweden.
Striking purple (HIO) flowers; VI-VIII; foliage mid-green; habit: spreading; height 15cm; spread 30cm after 3 years. Wild-collected in Scotland in 2004 by Margareta Dahlin and Brita Johansson. We “took cuttings … from a plant with a striking purple colour, hoping that it would prove hardier than cultivars from south England. So far it has behaved very well”.
Nessie is the name of the Dahlins’ Portuguese water-dog: “Of course Loch Ness is in the background.”
® E.2008:05 registered on 12 May 2008 by Margareta Dahlin, Varnhem, Sweden.
Flower corola pink and bell-shaped; calyx pink; V-VI; foliage green; Growth similar to Erica arborea; height 50cm; spread 30cm after 3 years in 50 cm.
Selected seedling from Erica arborea ‘Alpina‘ x Erica baccans.
Vossbarg (= fox hill) is the name of the area around Kramer’s house.
® E.2008:04 registered on 4 May 2008 by K. Kramer, Edewecht, Germany.
Flowers single, 10mm x 5mm; corolla lilac pink (Hll), calyx heliotrope (H12); XII-V; foliage very dark green with red tips in spring; habit neat, low, spreading mound; height 25mm; spread 50mm.
Sport on ‘W. G. Pine‘, found in 1997 by Ken Hutchins at Oregon Rhododendrons, Corvalis, USA.
® E.2008:02 registered on 24 January 2008 by K. Hutchins, Mossyrock, WA, USA.
Named from a play on the word polyploid (having a chromosone number more than double the basic or haploid number); “probably a tertraploid but not tested”.
