Thymus serpyllum 'Minor'
In 1924 Clarence Elliott of Six Hills Nursery, Stevenage, first listed a compact mat forming thyme with overlapping hairy leaves and
mauve flowers (80C), as T. serpyllum minus, later known as T. serpyllum 'Minor'.
The 1975 catalogue of R.V. Roger of Pickering listed T. serpyllum minimus, which became widely available from
nurseries and garden centres as T. serpyllum 'Minimus'.
In 2003 I was asked by the RHS to rename this cultivar, as the Latin epithet is unacceptable post 1959.
As it is one of the most popular and widely available thymes, I felt it was desirable that it should be as close as possible
to the unacceptable name and renamed it T. serpyllum 'Minimalist'; first published in Plant Heritage, Spring 2003.
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However subsequent research, with access to a greater number of catalogues in the Lindley Library, revealed the epithet 'Minimus'
to be a printing error in the 1975 catalogue of R.V. Roger of Pickering, replacing the epithet 'Minus' used in their earlier catalogues.
This mistake was repeated in subsequent catalogues and was copied by herb nurseries, wholesalers and garden centres,
but the older alpine nurseries still retained the 'Minor' epithet.
Both Susie White of Chesters Walled Garden and I have observed that thymes listed under both names appear to be identical.
The correct name was first published in Plant Heritage, Autumn 2008.
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T. serpyllum 'Minimalist' first published in Plant Heritage 2003.
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T. serpyllum 'Minor' published in Plant Heritage 2008.
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Thymus 'Spicy Orange'
Richters Nursery in Ontario introduced a mat forming thyme with very
narrow, strongly orange scented leaves, with the trade mark name
Orange Spice™
and with the cultivar epithet 'TM95'.
It was listed in the RHS Plant Finder from 2002 as T. 'Orange Spice', incorrectly using the trade mark name as a cultivar name.
However this was the name under which it had been imported from Canada.
American nurseries list this thyme under both the cultivar name 'Spicy Orange' and the trade mark name.
I proposed that it should be known as T. 'Spicy Orange'; first published in Plant Heritage, Spring 2009
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T. 'Spicy Orange' published in the International Thymus Register and Checklist.
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