Mauve flowers, VIII, very sparse; beautiful fine fern-like olive green foliage turning bronze with orange-bronze tips in winter; broad spreading habit; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm. Well worth growing for the foliage. Seedling collected from a gravel pit near Boras, south-western Sweden by the late Mats Johansson in 1985.
Heathers
‘Mauvelyn’
Mauve (H2) flowers, VIII–XI; dark green foliage; broad, erect; height 21–25cm; spread 31–45cm.
‘Mazurka’
Crimson (H13) flowers, VIII–IX, very floriferous; dark green foliage; broad habit; height 46–60cm; spread 61–75cm.
Similar to ‘Carmen‘ from which it was a sport and to which it sometimes reverts; found by A. Vruggink (Epe, Netherlands) before 1980; introduced by P.G. Zwijnenburg (Boskoop, Netherlands) in 1981.
‘Melanie’
♤ White buds in long spikes, VIII–XI; dark green foliage with prominent cilia; erect habit; height 31–45cm; spread 31–45cm.. Ideal for cut-flowers, this is an outstanding introduction.
Seedling from ‘Marleen‘ x ‘Hammondii‘; raised by Kurt Kramer (Edewecht-Süddorf, Germany) in 1984.
Submitted for plant breeders’ rightson 7 September 1988; rights granted in Germany on 18 February 1991.
Fantasy name; the nursery name ‘Weißer Knospenblüher’ .
‘Mick Jamieson’
❁ Mauve (H2) flowers, VII–X, double or semi-double, small but floriferous; dark green foliage; compact; height 31–45cm; spread 31–45cm.
Raised by David Wilson (at Sardis, British Columbia, Canada) from ‘Darkness‘ crossed with ‘Tib‘. Introduced in October 1990 (under the rejected name ‘Mr J.’) to Victoria Heather Society.
Mick Jamieson was a sales representative for Wilson’s Nursery and a friend of the raiser.
‘Mies’
Pale mauve flowers, VIII–IX; dark green foliage; low, creeping habit, similar to, but a little taller than ‘Mrs Ronald Gray‘; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm. Found at Etten-Leur, Netherlands, by Mr van Steen and named after his wife’s cat!
‘Milky Way’
White flowers, VII–IX; light green foliage, the young shoots are white and this colour persists a long time; compact, erect; height 40cm; spread 40cm. Sport on ‘Poolster‘, found by Albert Bosch in 1998 at nursery.
® C.2006:07 registered on 29 October 2006 by Albert Bosch, Boomkwekerij Bosch, Westerlee, Netherlands.
‘Minima’
Mauve (H2) flowers, VIII–IX, sparse; mid-green foliage which turns brown-green in winter; mat-forming; height < 10cm; spread 10–15cm.
Name comes from minimus = very little.
‘Minima Smith’s Variety’
Pink (H8) flowers, VIII–IX, sparse; bright green foliage; dwarf, erect forming a very attractive mat of green; height 10–15cm; spread 31–45cm.
Wild-collected; a witch’s broom found near Newry, County Down, Ireland, most probably by G. N. Smith (son of Thomas Smith); introduced by Daisy Hill Nursery (Newry, Co. Down) by 1930.
Named from minimus = very little. Maxwell & Beale seem to have devised the name ‘Minima (Smith’s Variety)’, with the last words enclosed in brackets. In this case, the name refers to Thomas Smith, Daisy Hill Nursery, Newry, County Down, Ireland.
‘Miniöxabäck’
Mauve flowers, VIII, sparse; green foliage; forms a very dwarf cushion; height less than 10cm; spread 10–15cm.
Seedling from ‘Öxabäck’; raised by Hilding Nilsson (Sweden) in 1976; introduced by Arthur Persson (Tostarp, Sweden) in 1985.
Name derived from Öxabäck, with mini- = little. The name is not hyphenated.