Pink (H16) flowers becoming darker, XII–V; mid-green foliage, the new shoots bronze; vigorous, trailing habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling, perhaps from Erica carnea ‘Springwood White’; found by Mrs Ralph Walker (Springwood, Stirling, Scotland) before 1930.
Named after Mrs Walker’s house, and the flower colour.
Renamed. See ‘Broadstone Startler‘
Flowers dark pink (H5) flowers, II–IV; foliage dark; habit compact; height 15cm; spread 20cm, two years old plants.
Seedling from crosses selected by Kurt Kramer,
Recorded and bred by Kurt Kramer, Edammer Straße 26, D-26188, Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany. 25.10.2001.
Kurt Kramer, EU PBR given on 08.06.2004
Heliotrope (H12) flowers, III–IV; grey-green foliage; height 10–15cm; spread 21–25cm.
Wild-collected; found in Switzerland by Richard Potter of Backhouse Nurseries; introduced by Backhouse Nurseries (York) Ltd. in 1911.
Salmon (H15) flowers, II–IV; mid-green foliage; compact twiggy habit, slow growing; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Recommended. Distinctive colour break amongst winter heaths.
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers deepening to magenta (H14), with lilac-pink sepals, III–IV; dark green foliage; spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Found among rooted cuttings from Scandinavia by P. Bakhuyzen (Boskoop, Netherlands).
Heliotrope (H12) flowers that darken to magenta (H14), I–V; dark green foliage with distinct bronze tinge; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Although still popular, ‘Adrienne Duncan‘ is more reliable.
Collected in the Engadive Alps, Switzerland, by Paul Theoholdt in 1906; introduced by Theoboldt (Aulendorf, Wurttemberg, Germany) in 1909.
named after the head of Theoboldt’s former firm, Adolf Vivell (1878–1959), a landscape architect of Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland.
Magenta (H14) flowers, II–IV, abundant; mid-green foliage; neat but vigorous spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; found at Nagel Nursery (Bretten, Germany) in 1982.
Magenta (H14) flowers, I–III; dark green foliage, young shoots tinged pink in spring; neat habit; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Seedling; introduced by Pennyacre Nurseries (Springfield, Fife, Scotland) by 1976.
White flowers becoming suffused with pale pink, II–III; mid-green foliage; open spreading habit; height 10–15cm; spread 46–60cm.
A sport from ‘March Seedling‘ found by R. Bratfisch in Germany before 1986.
Plants traded under the name Erica carnea “Margaret Benson” may be indistinguishable from this cultivar.
