‘Winter Chocolate’

Lavender (H3) flowers, VIII–X; golden foliage with pink shoot-tips in summer, turning bronze in winter, and with young shoots salmon-coloured in spring; height 16–20cm; spread 31–45cm.

Found by J. W. Sparkes (Beechwood Nursery, Beoley, Redditch, Worcestershire, England); introduced by J. W. Sparkes about 1966.

Name alludes to the foliage colour.