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Leptospermum 'Henry Price'

On a recent trip to Ireland I picked up a very pretty white-flowered
form of Leptospermum scoparium which Carewswood House Nursery in Co.
Cork was selling as L.s. 'Henry Price.' This isn't - according to The
Plant Finder - available in the U.K. Indeed, I don't know if, apart
from in Ireland, it's available anywhere in Europe.

I wondered if anyone on the Medit-Plants list might know anything
about this plant. Is it an Irish form? Or Australian? Or 'other'? And
who was or is H. P. and why is his name attached to it? 

I'm still reeling from the (horti-) cultural shock of the gigantic
sizes Oz, NZ and Chilean plants reach in the soft Irish south - and
NOT from the stout and the whiskey, your honour, I swear. 

Memory tells me it was even sunny and hot for the weeks we were in
Ireland. Perhaps after all the stout and whiskey had more effect than
I'm admitting...

Back on the Solway Coast in Cumbria it is of course NOT sunny and hot
- but undaunted Henry Price is flowering vigorously, all the same. 
Tim Longville
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