Thymus Serpyllum Red Carpet

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.

Thymus serpyllum red carpet.

Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet is a choice creeping thyme which forms low growing 2 in. Plant thymus serpyllum red carpet thyme red carpet herbs in atomica garden plant collection. Variety or cultivar red carpet red carpet is a mat forming evergreen subshrub with finely hairy trailing stems bearing tiny linear to elliptic aromatic mid to dark green leaves and whorls of tiny two lipped red to reddish pink flowers in summer.

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. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet. Dense cushion or mound forming. It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by rhs experts.

Dark green in all seasons. It is a low usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm 1 in tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm 4 in long. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects.

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. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. Plants are blanketed in pink flowers in late spring and summer. Tall carpets of green aromatic lemon scented leaves.

This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. 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. Thymus serpyllum red carpet is.

Blooms are beloved by butterflies.