Thymus Serpyllum Magic Carpet Thyme

Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer.

Thymus serpyllum magic carpet thyme. It is covered with small carmine pink flowers from may to june. Until recently this variety was only available from cuttings. Cdn 5 25 100pcs bag creeping thyme seeds or blue rock cress seeds perennial ground cover flower natural cdn 4 90. Design your own summer flower carpet with creeping thymes.

One packet averages 400 seeds. Creeping thyme thymus serpyllum magic carpet if you have a stepping stone path or a flagstone patio growing magic carpet seeds is a great way to add lovely low growing thyme to the walkway and patio crevices. Thyme lawns thyme seats cracks in paths and steps garden edging plant. Start indoors 6 8 weeks before last frost.

Primarily used as a ground cover thymus serpyllum creeping thyme is a dwarf aromatic shrub forming a low cushion of tiny pointed glossy blue green leaves that turn bronze in the fall. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. On surface lightly cover starting indoors outdoors. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny deep pink purplish flowers.

Magic carpet thyme seed p 1 2 fs z4 8 a very low growing creeping thyme cultivar bearing masses of pink flowers. Perfect for hot dry exposed sites. It is a low usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm 1 in tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm 4 in long. The flowers come in a range of mauves pinks and white.

Magic carpet blooms a week earlier than our creeping thyme seed and the flowers are just a little longer. Excellent between pavers along walkways or patios or spilling over rocks and retaining walls. Thymus serpyllum this variety forms a two inch high compact carpet of tiny slightly woolly green leaves. This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer.

Thymus serpyllum known by the common names of breckland thyme breckland wild thyme wild thyme creeping thyme or elfin thyme is a species of flowering plant in the mint family lamiaceae native to most of europe and north africa. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. 50 seeds planting perennial zone 5 9 germination. Although the leaves are aromatic they are rarely used in.

Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. 1000 seeds creeping thyme seeds magic carpet thymus serpyllum perennial ground cover. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about thymus creeping thyme thymus serpyllum magic carpet supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave s garden. There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor.

Primarily used as a ground cover thymus serpyllum magic carpet creeping thyme is a dwarf aromatic sub shrub forming a tight cushion of tiny rounded dark green leaves.