Thyme Pink Carpet

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

Thyme pink carpet.

Very soft flat spreading carpet zones 5 6. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. It creates a purple carpet that can be walked over hence its name. Easy to grow and a great groundcover it produces a carpet of colorful flowers from early summer through fall.

Woolly thyme thymus pseudolanuginosus. A variety of the genus thymus sepyllum pink chintz thyme is characterized by its fuzzy dark green foliage with light to dark pink flowers. The purple carpet grows at a low height creating a purple carpet of flowers that gardeners can walk on without damaging the plant. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers.

It spreads quickly and can reach 24 inches in diameter. 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. Once established creeping thyme is drought tolerant another bonus for my drought afflicted area. This plant is low growing with pale pink flowers and the scent of caraway.

Individual plants will spread to 18 inches. It has no scent so it s not used for cooking. Deschampsia caespitosa tufted hairgrass is a perennial bunch grass from mountain meadows. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of small salmon pink flowers.

It cascades nicely in rock gardens and can grow in patio cracks. The ground cover plants are full of tiny pink clusters of blooms that are attractive to butterflies. 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 prefers soil with good drainage and a slightly alkaline balance.

Caraway thyme thymus herba barona. The red creeping thyme produces small but pretty flowers that produce the typical thyme scent. Purple carpet this variety is the most popular type of creeping thyme found all over the world. Silver carpet is a nearly flat ground cover for sunny borders.

The groundcover is lemen scented and it is a maintenance free hardy plant that will give years of beauty and enjoyment. Magic carpet thyme is perfect for edging the flower border rock gardens walkways patios and in containers. 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. On banks try scarlet flame carpet phlox or moonbeam coreopsis drought tolerant and it has a sweet flower.

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.