Thymus Magic Carpet

Until recently this variety was only available from cuttings.

Thymus magic carpet.

Tough enough to take foot traffic and remain beautiful space 12 15 apart. Magic carpet thyme is perfect for edging the flower border rock gardens walkways patios and in containers. On surface lightly cover. Thymus is cold hardy and deer resistant.

One packet averages 400 seeds. The ground cover plants are full of tiny pink clusters of blooms that are attractive to butterflies. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about thymus creeping thyme thymus serpyllum magic carpet supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave s garden. Perennial zone 5 9.

Thymus serpyllum magic carpet. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. Excellent between pavers along walkways or patios or spilling over rocks and retaining walls. In no time you ll have a carpet covered with clusters of tiny pink blooms all summer long.

Ok it might be the orange scent too. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. Thymus magic carpet is yet another one of the newer thyme on the market. There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor.

The groundcover is lemen scented and it is a maintenance free hardy plant that will give years of beauty and enjoyment. Magic carpet blooms a week earlier than our creeping thyme seed and the flowers are just a little longer. Its leaves form more of a point than other thymes and have a unique citrus scent to them. This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer.

Thymus serpyllum magic carpet common name. 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. It is covered with small carmine pink flowers from may to june. Magic carpet thyme seed p 1 2 fs z4 8 a very low growing creeping thyme cultivar bearing masses of pink flowers.

Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. This variety forms a two inch high compact carpet of tiny slightly woolly green leaves. This is perfect for rock gardens in walkways between patio bricks and as a border planting.