Deep pink flowers, II–IV; dark green foliage; very compact; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. Selected from seedlings of ‘Myretoun Ruby‘ by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht, Germany). Similar to ‘Lohses Rubin‘. Ideal for patio planting. Calluna vulgaris ‘Winter Rubin‘ is a legitimate replacement name for ‘Kramer’s Rubin’ requested by the introducer.
Heathers
‘Lake Garda’
Pale pink (H8) flowers, I–III; dark green foliage; vigorous spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Named after the place in Italy where it was collected by David McClintock.
‘Late Pink’
Pink flowers, II–V; mid-green foliage; spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm. Very similar to Erica carnea ‘March Seedling’.
Name is an allusion to the flowering time and flower colour.
‘Lena’
Correct name Erica x darleyensis ‘Lena’
‘Lesley Sparkes’
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, XI–IV; mid-green foliage, shoots tipped with salmon and gold particularly in spring; slow growing; height 10–15cm; spread 21–25cm.
A sport from ‘King George‘; found about 1955 by J. W. Sparkes (Beechwood Nursery, Beoley, Redditch, Worcestershire, England); introduced either by J. W. Sparkes or J. F. Letts about 1966. It took 3 years before the sport could be rooted.
Named after a granddaughter (daughter of Joan) of J. W. Sparkes.
‘Little Peter’
Shell-pink flowers, II–IV; mid-green foliage; compact; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
‘Lohses Rubin’
Magenta (H14) flowers, I–III; dark green foliage; habit very compact; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
Found by M. Lohse (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) and rated highly in trials at Bad Zwischenahn, Germany.
Named after the finder. Rubin = ruby.
‘Lohses Rubinfeuer’
Bright crimson (H13) flowers, similar to ‘Myretoun Ruby‘ but has a much more compact habit; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
‘Lohses Rubinschimmer’
Soft rose flowers deepening to bright carmine, III–IV; mid-green foliage; close compact habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. A seedling raised by D. Lohse (Bullenkuhlen, Schleswig–Holstein, Germany) by 1995.
‘Loughrigg’
Pink (H8) flowers deepening through rose-pink (H7) to heliotrope (H12), I–V; dark green foliage with shades of bronze; vigorous spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm. Outstanding.
Possible seedling of Erica carnea ‘Vivellii’; found by G. Hayes (Grasmere, Cumbria, England), and introduced by Robert Hayes by 1948; available from Maxwell & Beale (Broadstone, Dorset) in 1946.
Named after one of the Lake District’s fells, between Grasmere and Ambleside.