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.
Way back in 1938, Miss Isabel Young, who was nicknamed Tib, happened upon this exceptional Heather in Scotland’s Pentland Hills. Unparalleled as a cut flower, either fresh or dried, the splendid rosy-crimson double blooms, borne on long, erect slender stems, festoon a compact bushy mound of fine textured dark green foliage. Eventually claiming a coveted AGM, ‘Tib’ has withstood the test of time and promises to be a champion in your garden, especially when set against the varied foliage of other Callunas such as Calluna ‘Firefly’ and Calluna ‘Sister Anne’.
Blooms July–September
Size: 18" – 2' 0" high x 2' 0" – 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 ‘Wickwar Flame’
- Calluna vulgaris ‘Winter Chocolate’
