Erica cinerea 'C.D. Eason' (Bell Heather) - Beautiful Compact, Evergreen Mounds Of Color
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Come with us into the shipping department of our nursery of a breezy day and listen in as David tells us about this beautiful little Bell Heather.
Find out about its compact, bushy habit, how it grows into evergreen mounds that light up in early summer with glorious blankets of wind resistant color.
Get the scoop on how to grow and look after it and in his usual story telling way...., find out from David about it origins and why you may want to consider finding a place for it somewhere around your home.
Sun to Partial Shade
Hardiness Zone 5
Width 24" x Height 9"
Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit (1993)
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There's a saying that says the heather loves to have the wind in its hair,
and on a breezy morning like this in the shipping yard,
you can see how it loves to move with the air movement.
This is a very nice form of the bell heather,
one known as Seedy Easton. As you see,
it carries lots of these very pretty little bell-shaped flowers
on the tips of its growth, making evergreen clumps that are about
eight to nine inches high, by about two foot or so wide.
This is a nice plant to put in a sunny or partially shaded site.
Just a couple of things to bear in mind. The first is when you plant it,
make sure to plant it with plenty of organic matter at its roots,
and mulch it too, to keep the roots cool during the hotter summer months.
And the second, and very important thing, is to go through
and shear off all of the old flowers when they start to go over.
That keeps it tight and compact and lush. Lots of young, fresh growth.
Now, Seedy Easton was a Nazi, believe it or not,
that worked for a very famous English firm, Maxwell and Beale,
and he introduced this and found it in 1929 in Dorset in England.
This is Erica Seedy Easton.