Thymus Serpyllum Red Carpet

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Thymus serpyllum red carpet.

Thymus serpyllum magic carpet. It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by rhs experts. Thymus serpyllum red carpet is. Plants are blanketed in pink flowers in late spring and 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. Red reddish pink in summer. Dense cushion or mound forming. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the 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. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet is a choice creeping thyme which forms low growing 2 in.

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. Plant thymus serpyllum red carpet thyme red carpet herbs in atomica garden plant collection. Dark green in all seasons. Tall carpets of green aromatic lemon scented leaves.

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. Blooms are beloved by butterflies. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early 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.