Pink (H8) flowers darkening to heliotrope (H12), XII–V, abundant; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm. A good floriferous heather.
Seedling; found by David McClintock in his garden at Bracken Hill (Platt, Kent, England) about 1960, and exhibited by him in the late 1960s; rooted and subsequently shown by Jack London (Norfolk) at Royal Horticultural Society shows in 1975 and 1980.
Named after David McClintock, President of The Heather Society.
Pink (H8) flowers darkening to heliotrope (H12), XII–II; mid-green foliage; vigorous spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; raised by C. R. Roots (nureryman); on trial at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Wisley, in February 1966.
Named from the flowers and flowering month. Plants of ‘December Red’ ‘… may also have been distributed under the names ‘Pirbright Rose’ and ‘Springwood Rose’ … and also under the name Springwood Pink – dark flowered form …’.
Heliotrope (H12) flowers from almost white buds, II–IV; foliage dark green; compact spreading habit; height to 15cm; spread to 60cm. R. S.
Seedling; found by R. S. Young (Spindleberry, Church Road, Mersham, Ashford, Kent, England) during the winter 1992-1993.
Named it after his wife.
Registered 15 April 1996: R. S. Young, Spmdleberry, Church Road, Mersham, Ashford, Kent TN25 6NS, England.
Deep heliotrope (H12) flowers, I–V; dark green foliage; very vigorous trailing habit; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm.
Probable seedling; found in Norway in 1944; introduced by Lars Odegaarden (Dømmesmoen Gantner, Norway) by 1971.
Named after a horticultural school in Norway.
Salmon-pink flowers (H15), I–IV; mid-green foliage; compact habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. Seedling found by H. A. Verheul (Dwingeloo, Netherlands) and introduced by him in 1998.
Pale lilac-pink (H11) flowers, X–III; bright green foliage; spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; introduced by Sherwood’s Nursery (Oregon, USA) by 1968.
Name alludes to the flower colour and early-blooming habit.
Magenta (H14) flowers with cream sepals, X–IV; dark green foliage; slow growing; height 16–20cm; spread 16–20cm. Has a reputation for being unreliable but still well worth trying.
Seedling from Erica carnea ‘Praecox Rubra’; raised by J. W. Porter (Dundonald, County Down, Northern Ireland) in 1934; introduced by Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset, England) in 1940.
Named after raiser’s second wife; Mrs Porter was herself a keen heather collector, finding Erica cinerea ‘Little Anne’, and Calluna vulgaris ‘Anne Dobbin’.
Light red flowers, II–III; dark green foliage which turns bronze in winter; neat compact habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. Seedling raised by D. Lohse (Bullenkuhlen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) by 1995. It is one of the earliest red-blossomed cultivars to bloom.
Almost white (pale H16) flowers, aging to pink (H8), with pink (H8) sepals, XII–IV; mid-green foliage; trailing habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling, perhaps from “the two Springwoods” (i.e. ‘Springwood White‘ and ‘Springwood Pink‘); found by J. F. Letts (Foxhollow, Windlesham, Surrey, England) and introduced by him about 1960.
Named after the finder’s home and nursery.
Bright lilac-pink (H11) flowers, XI–II; dull green foliage; compact; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
Wild-collected; found in Switzerland by Richard Potter of Backhouse Nurseries; introduced by Backhouse Nurseries (York) Ltd in 1911.
Named after the latin for slender.
