🌺 Bright red flowers: The common heather (Calluna vulgaris) delights with intense, bright red flowers from October to December, bringing color to dull autumn and winter days. 🌿 Evergreen & hardy: The heather remains attractive all year round with its dark green foliage and is perfect for year-round garden design. 🐝 Valuable insect plant: The flowers provide important food sources for bees, bumblebees, and butterflies in the late season. ☀️ Versatile & decorative: Ideal for beds, borders, rock gardens, balcony boxes, and containers – grows compactly with a height of 10–30 cm and a width of 20–40 cm. 💧 Easy to care for & robust: Prefers moderately moist, humus-rich garden soil, water evenly without waterlogging – also ideal for garden beginners. The common heather (Calluna vulgaris) in vibrant red is a classic among autumn plants and brings bright colors to the garden, balcony, or terrace when many other plants have already faded. With its late flowering from October to December, it provides lively accents and gives outdoor areas a natural, cozy charm. This compact-growing plant reaches a height of 10 to 30 cm and a width of 20 to 40 cm. With its evergreen, dark green foliage, it is attractive even outside the flowering period. The common heather is hardy, easy to care for, and extremely adaptable. It thrives in sunny to partially shaded locations and prefers well-drained garden soil. Moderate but even moisture is important, and waterlogging should be avoided. The heather looks particularly beautiful in beds, borders, rock gardens, or plant containers in combination with grasses and ornamental plants. As an insect-friendly plant, it provides nectar and pollen for bees and bumblebees in late autumn when the supply of flowers is already scarce – a valuable contribution to biodiversity. – Botanical name: Calluna vulgaris – German name: Common heather, heather, Erica – Flower color: Red – Flowering period: October – December – Foliage color: Dark green, evergreen – Growth height: approx. 10 – 30 cm