Ruby (H5) flowers, VI–IX; dark green foliage; compact habit; height 16–20cm; spread 46–60cm. Found in Cornwall by John Letts and named after one of his dogs (see also ‘Cindy‘).
Heathers
‘Smith’s Lawn’
Mauve (H2) flowers, VII–VIII; mid-green foliage; rather open habit; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm.
Introduced by 1963.
Named after the polo field in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire.
‘Spicata’
Pinkish purple flowers, VI–VII, small, in short spikes; dark green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Introduced by 1830s, and in commerce in 1870s, but whether the clone grown under this name today is the same as the nineteenth centruy plants is debatable.
Named after latin spicatus = bearing a spike.
‘Splendens’
Deep heliotrope (H12) flowers, VI–X; mid-green foliage; height 21–25cm; spread 61–75cm.
Seedling; raised by Georg Arends (Wuppertal, Germany) by 1914; introduced by Arends in 1920.
Named from splendens = brilliant.
‘Startler’
Magenta (H14) flowers, VI–IX; dark green foliage; large carpeter; height 21–25cm; spread 46–60cm.
Possible eedling; introduced by Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset, England) in 1934.
Derivation not known.
‘Stephen Davis’
Bright magenta (H14) flowers, VI–IX; dark green foliage; neat habit; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm. Found on Marley Common, Haslemere, Surrey, by Peter Davis and named after his son.
‘Strawberry Bells’
Dusky lilac-pink (H11) flowers, VII–VIII, profuse; dark green foliage; upright habit; height 26–30cm; spread 31–45cm.
Introduced before 1968.
Derivation unknown. Under ICNCP (1995, Art. 17.13) the former name, ‘Strawberry’, is not acceptable, being the vernacular name of another plant.
‘Sue Lloyd’
Magenta (H14) flowers, VII–IX; dark green foliage, the shoots tipped pink; compact; height 16–20cm; spread 26–30cm. A sport from ‘Rose Queen‘, to which it reverts, and named after a worker at Greenacres Nursery, Worcestershire, who found it there.
‘Ted Oliver’
Bi-coloured flowers purple bases and white mouths, VI–XI; deep green foliage; semi-erect; height 40cm. The reverse of the “normal” bi-colours in bell heathers.
Collected in at Lettergesh, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
Named after Dr E. G. H. Oliver.
® E.2008:08 registered by Susie Kay, Lettergesh, County Galway, Ireland.
‘Tilford’
Amethyst (H1) flowers, VI–XI; mid-green foliage; neat spreading habit; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. Named after the village in Surrey.