Calluna
Heather
Callunas’ tiny scale-like leaves range from deep green to silver, gold and bronze, with some changing color after a frost. Flowering from mid-to-late summer in cool whites, pinks and purples, the small bell-shaped flowers are frozen in graceful repose on one-sided spikes. Heathers are marvelous, fresh or dried.
With so many upright and horizontal stems, this Heather has an especially wild appearance in its youth. When it matures, however, it develops into a dense, tight mound of unusual foliage: burnt orange-yellow on the upper half and lime-green below, where it is protected from the sun.
During the winter months the color intensifies, making the shrub appear almost as though it’s on fire. During the summer, the color spectrum is extended with lavender- pink flowers blooming along the upper portion of the stems.
Blooms late July–August
Size: 15" high x 2-1/2' wide.
Hardy to zone 4.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Blazeaway’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Bonita’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Corbett’s Red’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Dark Beauty’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Firefly’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Flamingo’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘H. E. Beale’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Kinlochruel’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Martha Herman’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Multicolor’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘October White’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Red Star’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Silver Knight’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Sister Anne’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Spring Torch’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Tib’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Winter Chocolate’
