Winter Flowering Heather

Winter Flowering Heather (Erica carnea), is heath specie native to mountainous areas of central and southern Europe. It feels most comfortable on coniferous woodlands or stony slopes, as the picture above shows. Individual flowers area slender bell-shaped and round 5mm mm long, with trademark dark reddish-pink color. Winter fl. Heather came into spotlight just over a year ago, after several newspaper articles claimed that it may have the same effect as Viagra. Since then it became the subject of cultivation frenzy in some countries