Heathers 9: Yearbook of The Heather Society 2012
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MAIN CONTENTS
Frontispiece : Dame Felicity Lott CBE
DAVID WILSON : Arctic Outflow Wind: a cold killer.
… occasionally, we face the worst of winter weather conditions – an “Arctic Outflow Wind” – when we just hold on and try to get through it. In November 2010, we did just that. … What is difficult to comprehend is why only Calluna should be damaged, and so completely that none will have a chance to recover. …
RAYMOND J. EVISON : Clematis and heathers.
One of the most successful plant associations that I have been aware of is the use of Clematis viticella cultivars to grow over winter-flowering heathers …
DAVID PLUMRIDGE : Clematis ‘The President’ at Rose Cottage.
MICHAEL D. PIRIE : What can heathers tell us about the origins of biological diversity?
… many of the bird-pollinated species are more closely related to insect-pollinated species than they are to other bird-pollinated ones. … there is evidence to suggest that common ancestors of today’s Erica species dispersed out of Europe onto the African continent. As well as making the giant leap down to the southern tip of Africa, they managed to colonize the mountains of tropical East Africa, and those of Madagascar and a few other islands in the Indian Ocean.
JOHN HALL : The successful use of heathers in containers.
I have a friend in Wales who has two old wheelbarrows planted up with winter- and spring-flowering, and two more planted up with summer- and autumn-flowering heathers. …
JOHN GRIFFITHS : Blue heathers – myth or reality?
As every heather enthusiast knows, true blue flowers in Erica and Calluna are unknown … The vision of a swathe of (relatively) natural blue heathers through heather beds of pink, red, purple, silver and gold is a very attractive prospect, and I for one look forward in anticipation to further developments. …
WILL QUARMBY : BHGA Small Garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2011.
The aim of our garden was to promote the use of heathers, by illustrating their diversity in flower and foliage, colour, texture, height and spread, with the additional benefits to wildlife. …
DAVID McCLINTOCK : Who was “Our Mr Richard Potter”? [modified reprint]
JEAN PRESTON : This Was ‘Our Mr Richard Potter”. [modified reprint]
E. CHARLES NELSON : Continuing the quest for Richard Potter (1844–1922).
… Potter …[was] “the most able lieutenant of James Backhouse of York, a great student of alpines in their native habitats, constantly visiting Switzerland to gain experience from what he saw in nature”.
The Heather Society 100 One hundred recommended heathers 2012.
These 100 heathers are recommended by The Heather Society as a collection of the best heathers. They have been carefully chosen as a result of wide practical experience in different parts of the world …
W. DE BRUIN : In memoriam Jos Flecken.
The Heather Society’s Proceedings 2011 40th Annual Gathering, Crosthwaite, Cumbria, 9–11 September 2011.
Supplement XII (2012) to International register of heather names.
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Previous issues
Heathers 8 2011
Contents
DAPHNE EVERETT & JOHN GRIFFITHS: David J. Small (1939–2010).
R. CANOVAN & E. C. NELSON: Bibliography for David Small.
ELLA MAY T. WULFF: Heather cultivars associated with David Small and Denbeigh Heather Nurseries 1972–1999.
DAVID SMALL: Observations on rooting cuttings.
B. DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Les bruyères à l’Arboretum des Grandes Bruyères.
ARNOLD STOW: Heather companions: a gardener’s guide.
COLIN ROGERS: Short back and side, sir?
RICHARD CANOVAN: A new Erica manipuliflora seedling.
E. C. NELSON: Erica manipuliflora ‘Bert Jones’.
KARLA LORTZ: Growing South African heathers on Puget Sound, western USA.
E. G. H. OLIVER: Hunting for Ericas in Madagascar.
AARON SIPF: The trials and tribulations od growing heathers on a terrace in the Mediterranean.
Supplement XI (2011) to International register of heather names.