Thymus Serpyllum Red Carpet

Dense cushion or mound forming.

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 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. 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. 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. Plants are blanketed in pink flowers in late spring and summer. Thymus serpyllum red carpet is. Red reddish pink in summer.

It is a low usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm 1 in tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm 4 in long. This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. Blooms are beloved by butterflies. There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor.

Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. Tall carpets of green aromatic lemon scented leaves. Plant thymus serpyllum red carpet thyme red carpet herbs in atomica garden plant collection. 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.

This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer. Rhs plants for pollinators plants. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet. Dark green in all seasons.

Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers.