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That is a beautiful plant! There are over a hundred listed in the Plant Files data base: [HYPERLINK@davesgarden.com] Maybe you can scroll through some of the pictures and find a match to your plant.
Scots heather is usually used as the common name for Calluna not Erica, although we might need a little closer shot of your plant to decide which one this is. If it's Calluna, it's most likely a cultivar of C. vulgaris, and since there are a number of pink ones I don't know that you'll be able to get a sure ID down to the cultivar level.
Either Heather Calluna vulgaris or Bell Heather Erica cinerea, but not quite enough detail in the photo to see which it is. Can you do a close-up of the foliage please?
Also please note that the spelling "scot*h" is offensive to people in Scotland and shouldn't be used (with the single exception of whisky) - the correct spelling is Scots, as Ecrane gives.
Sure didn't mean to be offensive to anyone, when I google Heather , that what I came up with, sorry. Thanks for letting me know.
Here is close up of the foliage, in one of them.
This is one that grows all over down here in Florida. Not really a Heather but the common name is Mexican Heather. Cuphea hyssopifolia: [HYPERLINK@davesgarden.com]
edited to say: I really think yours is one of the Calluna.
I appreciate the advice on "Scots' vs the impolite 'Scotch'. The latter is a widely used term in American nurserys for Calluna vulgaris, unfortunately. I'm sure no offense is meant, but ignorance is not an excuse.
