Heathers

Deep shell-pink (H16) flowers, VIII–X; dark green foliage; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.

Introduced by Messrs R. V. Roger Ltd (Pickering, Yorkshire, England) by 1973.

Named after a nursery foreman at R. V. Roger Ltd., Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Deep rose-pink (H7) flowers, VIII–X; dark green foliage. Deliberately bred seedling raised by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany).

Selected and introduced by Forest Edge Nurseries.

Named by Miss Samantha Cordwell.

® E.2007.02 registered 10 January 2007 by David Edge, Forest Edge Nurseries, Woodlands, Wimborne, Dorset.

Lilac (H4) flowers, VII–IX, early to come into bloom, free-flowering; mid-green foliage; height 21–25cm; spread 46–60cm.

Introduced by 1964.

Named after the Latin lilacinus = lilac.

Deep shell-pink (H16) flowers, VIII–IX; mid-green foliage; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm.

Wild-collected; found on The Lizard, Cornwall, England, by Miss M. B. G. Waterer (Eden Valley, Ludgvan, Cornwall) about 1917; introduced by Slieve Donard Nursery (Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland) about 1934.

Named after the finder, Martha Betha Gertrude Waterer (1822-1974; Yearbook of The Heather Society 3 (3): 46-53 (1985)).

Deep rose-pink (H6/H7)flowers, VIII–X; dark green foliage; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm. Outstanding.

Wild-collected; found by Mr and Mrs D. F. Maxwell, while on honeymoon in 1923, ‘not many miles from Helston’ on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England; introduced by Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset) in 1925.

Named after Mrs Maxwell. Douglas Fyfe Maxwell married Esther Caroline De C. Eastlake at Langport, Somerset, in 1923. D. F. Maxwell was born in 1892 (see free bmd); died in 1963.

Pale rose-pink (H7) flowers, VII–IX; mid-green foliage; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. One of the earliest Cornish heaths to bloom.

Introduced by Wallace by 1931.

Derivation unknown.

Lilac (H4) flowers, loose in habit, VII–X; bright green foliage; vigorous; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. Comes into bloom early.

Plants under this name were cultivated as early as 1825; the present clone is unlikely to be the same as the one known to Sinclair.

Named from Latin pallidus = pale.

Pale pink (H8) flowers, VIII–X; mid-green foliage; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. Very attractive.

Found and introduced by Treseders Nursery (Truro, Cornwall, England) by 1966.

Name is presumably an allusion to the flower colour.

Deep pink (H8) flowers, VIII–X, fading to white; dark green foliage; forms a compact spreading dome; height 16–20cm; spread 46–60cm.. In dry summers this does not perform well, producing fewer flowers; it also has a rather untidy appearance.

Introduced by G. Underwood & Son (Hookstone Green Nursery, West End, Woking, Surrey, England) in 1936; the origin of this cultivar is not known.

Name presumed to have been acquired because it came from The Pyrenees.