This is a relatively low maintenance plant and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season.
Thyme serphyllum magic carpet.
This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer.
There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor.
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It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.
Excellent between pavers along walkways or patios or spilling over rocks and retaining walls.
Magic carpet blooms a week earlier than our creeping thyme seed and the flowers are just a little longer.
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.
Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.
Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers.
Thymus serpyllum magic carpet.
Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer.