Pink (H8) flowers, I–III; mid-green foliage; open, spreading habit; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm.
Selected from seedlings of ‘Myretoun Ruby‘ crossed with ‘Springwood White‘; raised by John Hall in 1986 at Windlesham Court Nurseries (Windlesham, Surrey, England); selected by Hall, and introduced after 1991.
Name alluding to the flower colour.
Lilac pink (H11) flowers (slightly paler at the base); XI–IV; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Wild-collected; found in Switzerland by Richard Potter of Backhouse Nurseries; introduced by Backhouse Nurseries (York) Ltd. in 1911.
Name alludes to the flower colour.
Shell-pink (H16) flowers getting darker, I–V; mid-green foliage; vigorous spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found in a garden in Cornwall, England, variously described as ‘at Devoran’ or a “Mrs P. H. Davey’s at Saffron Meadow on one of the creeks of the Fal River’, by Neil Treseder in 1961; introduced by Treseder’s Nursery (Truro, Cornwall) in 1966 .
Name alludes to the flower colour. Note: Annotation in Treseders’ catalogue [ex C. MacLeod]: ‘Seedling amongst E. Med. along side a … seedlings had been tipped from Bird Bath on to a border.’
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, XII–III; grey-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm.
Seedling; found by C. R. Roots Nursery (Pirbright, Surrey, England); introduced by C. R. Roots about 1933. Plants ‘… may also have been distributed under the name ‘Pirbright Pink’.’
Named after a town in Surrey where the introducing nursery was situated.
Mauve (H2) flowers with heliotrope (H12) tips, I–III; mid-green foliage; vigorous; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm.
Seedling found at Polden Acres Nursery (Edington, near Bridgwater) about 1980.
Named after the place where it was found.
Magenta (H14) flowers, I–V; dark green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Very similar to ‘Myretoun Ruby‘, but blooms earlier in milder districts.
Of American origin.
Heliotrope (H12) flowers (tips deepest madder brown); XI–V; dark green foliage sometimes tinged brown; vigorous with a semi–prostrate habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Flowers ‘rich rose carmine self, tips deepest madder brown’.* Heliotrope (H12; RHS 70B) flowers, Nov-May, with dark green foliage sometimes tinged brown. Vigorous with a semi-prostrate habit. 15cm tall, 40cm spread.
Wild-collected; found in Switzerland by Richard Potter of Backhouse Nurseries; introduced by Backhouse Nurseries (York) Ltd. in 1911.
Named from praecox = precocious, early (usually referring to flowering time); ruber = red.
Shell-pink (H16) flowers, XI–V; mid-green foliage, and the leaves have a distinctive curl; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Collected in Switzerland by R. Potter and introduced by James Backhouse, York. Named after the eldest son of King George V.
Heliotrope (H12) flowers with pale pink base, burnt sienna tips., Nov-Mar, with dark green foliage. 20cm tall, 40cm spread.Heliotrope (H12) flowers, XI–III; dark green foliage; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm.
Collected in Switzerland by R. Potter and introduced by James Backhouse, York.
Named in honour of the consort of King George V.
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers shading to shell-pink (H16) at the base, XI–V; mid-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 26–30cm. Collected in Switzerland by R. Potter and introduced by James Backhouse, York. Named in honour of a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria.
