Thyme Pink Carpet

Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.

Thyme pink carpet.

Magic carpet thyme is perfect for edging the flower border rock gardens walkways patios and in containers. Purple carpet this variety is the most popular type of creeping thyme found all over the world. It prefers soil with good drainage and a slightly alkaline balance. Award winning thymus serpyllum pink chintz creeping thyme is a dwarf aromatic sub shrub forming a carpet of tiny rounded slightly woolly dark green leaves.

It cascades nicely in rock gardens and can grow in patio cracks. Squaw carpet is an evergreen ground cover that grows on open slopes and under jeffrey or ponderosa pines from 4000 to 7000 elevation. Silver carpet is a nearly flat ground cover for sunny borders. Red creeping thyme would work where you are and so would ice although it allows a few weeds to peek through but it spreads like a dream.

Once established creeping thyme is drought tolerant another bonus for my drought afflicted area. Needs a dry and sunny location can take light foot traffic. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of small salmon pink flowers. It has no scent so it s not used for cooking.

Very soft flat spreading carpet zones 5 6. A variety of the genus thymus sepyllum pink chintz thyme is characterized by its fuzzy dark green foliage with light to dark pink flowers. The groundcover is lemen scented and it is a maintenance free hardy plant that will give years of beauty and enjoyment. Easy to grow and a great groundcover it produces a carpet of colorful flowers from early summer through fall.

Deschampsia caespitosa tufted hairgrass is a perennial bunch grass from mountain meadows. The purple carpet grows at a low height creating a purple carpet of flowers that gardeners can walk on without damaging the plant. The red creeping thyme produces small but pretty flowers that produce the typical thyme scent. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.

On banks try scarlet flame carpet phlox or moonbeam coreopsis drought tolerant and it has a sweet flower. It creates a purple carpet that can be walked over hence its name. It spreads quickly and can reach 24 inches in diameter. 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.

Individual plants will spread to 18 inches. The ground cover plants are full of tiny pink clusters of blooms that are attractive to butterflies. This plant is low growing with pale pink flowers and the scent of caraway. The plant does well in either full sun or partial shade.

A highly desirable and popular groundcover forming a dense low mat completely covered in lavender purple flowers throughout summer attractive fine and fragrant foliage the rest of the season.