Thyme Pink Carpet

Needs a dry and sunny location can take light foot traffic.

Thyme pink carpet.

Individual plants will spread to 18 inches. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. Deschampsia caespitosa tufted hairgrass is a perennial bunch grass from mountain meadows. Woolly thyme thymus pseudolanuginosus.

Once established creeping thyme is drought tolerant another bonus for my drought afflicted area. The groundcover is lemen scented and it is a maintenance free hardy plant that will give years of beauty and enjoyment. On banks try scarlet flame carpet phlox or moonbeam coreopsis drought tolerant and it has a sweet flower. Caraway thyme thymus herba barona.

Purple carpet this variety is the most popular type of creeping thyme found all over the world. It creates a purple carpet that can be walked over hence its name. The purple carpet grows at a low height creating a purple carpet of flowers that gardeners can walk on without damaging the plant. It cascades nicely in rock gardens and can grow in patio cracks.

Easy to grow and a great groundcover it produces a carpet of colorful flowers from early summer through fall. 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. Silver carpet is a nearly flat ground cover for sunny borders. The plant does well in either full sun or partial shade.

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. 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. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. Very soft flat spreading carpet zones 5 6.

Squaw carpet is an evergreen ground cover that grows on open slopes and under jeffrey or ponderosa pines from 4000 to 7000 elevation. This plant is low growing with pale pink flowers and the scent of caraway. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of small salmon pink flowers. A variety of the genus thymus sepyllum pink chintz thyme is characterized by its fuzzy dark green foliage with light to dark 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. The red creeping thyme produces small but pretty flowers that produce the typical thyme scent. It spreads quickly and can reach 24 inches in diameter. It has no scent so it s not used for cooking.

The ground cover plants are full of tiny pink clusters of blooms that are attractive to butterflies.