English Creeping Thyme Choice of White, Red, Purple or Pink 9 pc.
English Creeping Thyme is a flowering groundcover that saves you time and money by eliminating the need for mulching, weeding, spreading gravel, and erosion. These flowering Thyme plants produce blankets and blankets of color in one of the most versatile, carefree, and easy to grow, maintenance free flowering groundcovers known to the garden world. These special varieties offer the highest color impact and diversity, the fastest growing and spreading, and greatest sheer volume of flowers and can take the greatest abuse making you wonder how you ever lived without them. These are the best English varieties and nearly impossible to find in the U.S. They’re work horses for the garden that transform trouble spots and problem areas.
| Botanical Name: | Thymus Serpyllum | Common Name: | Thyme | Hardiness Zone: | 4-9: Cold Tolerance: -25F | Sun Shade: | Full Sun to Part Shade | SKU: | R67231 / Perennial | Bloom Time: | Summer | Cultivar: | Snowdrift White, Red Coccineus, Purple Carpet or Pink Wooly | HT/WD: | 1-4 in / 12-18 in | Special: | Fragrant, Attracts Butterflies & Hummingbirds, Drought Tolerant, Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Heat Tolerant | Uses: | pathways, walkways, borders, maintenance free lawn substitutes, groundcovers, containers, rock gardens, cascading over stones walls, between flagstones, great for xeriscaping | Growing Guides: | Creeping Thyme | Ships: | 9 pak tray | Shipping Schedule: | Zone Map |
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They creep and crawl in the cracks and crevices anywhere and everywhere transforming the problem areas and trouble spots where nothing grows but weeds and erosion. Its exceptional thick matted foliage is perfect for withstanding foot traffic as they can be stepped on, walked on, trampled on, laid on, and they still look their very best making them ideal for pathways, walkways, borders, or maintenance free lawn substitutes! Their fragrant and evergreen foliage is hardy in the harshest of winters, drought tolerant, deer resistant, and super low maintenance. These are hardy to minus 25F. This out of the box border look includes the magnificent variety of Mother of Thyme Purple plants. This variety will produce thick matted foliage with lavender flowers that appear like a magic carpet transforming most any problem area in your garden or yard. This evergreen fast growing English variety is a flower machine. It features tiny dark green leaves, smothered by bright lavender-purple flowers beginning in early summer. One of the fastest growing varieties of creeping thyme, this strong grower reaches only 1 to 4 inches tall but spreads rapidly making it ideal as a drought-tolerant lawn substitute or planting between stepping stones. It can tolerate foot traffic every single day. It also works well in rock gardens, at the edge of rock walls, in graveled patches or containers where space and water is limited. It spreads about 18 to 24 inches each year.
