![]() ![]() Creeping thyme is also a magnet for pollinating insects, especially bees and butterflies, which adds delicious flavor to the resulting honey. Both the flowers and leaves are edible, and unlike many other herbs, creeping thyme plants do not lose their flavor when in bloom and when the flowers die. Low maintenance growing and including an excellent aromatic ground cover are some of the benefits. There are many benefits to growing the green leaves and sometimes white flowers of creeping thyme in your garden. It can even be used as an alternative to a grass lawn, growing only a few inches tall, able to withstand moderate foot traffic, and providing a spectacular vision of pink when in bloom. ![]() This aromatic herb, although edible, is used mainly as a garden landscape tool or as a ground cover, filling gaps between stepping stones and crevices in dry-stone walls. Read on to discover how to create your own little slice of flowering creeping thyme heaven that spreads quickly through your front yard. Good news! It’s very easy to recreate this look at home. Our herbs are packaged securely in recycled and recyclable blister packs and then into cardboard boxes, to ensure your plants to arrive in the best possible condition.įurther information about delivery can be found on our Ordering & delivery information page.Creeping thyme is one of those ‘must have’ plants you see in glossy lifestyle magazines, with soft pink floral carpets cascading over cottage garden walls or sprawling across a gravel garden overlooking the ocean, creating an altogether dreamy and aspirational ambiance. PackagingĪll the herbs are supplied in 9x9 cm pots (8cm depth). Unfortunately due to Brexit we are unable to ship to Northern Island currently. ![]() *Please note there are additional surcharges for delivery to some postcodes in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Isle of Wight and Scilly Isles - this will be calculated at the checkout based on the delivery address postcode. Chargesġ - 3 herbs (UK including highlands & islands) - £6.20 Orders sent by courier to Scottish Highlands and Islands, Isle of Wight and Scilly Isles take 48-72hrs - this will be indicated at the checkout. ![]() Very small orders of up to 3 herbs are dispatched with Royal Mail but the majority of our orders are sent via a 24 hour courier service. This is usually within two to four days of placing your order, but at some points of the year during busy peaks it may take a little longer. We deliver our herb plants to addresses across the UK. Orders are dispatched between Mondays and Thursdays. They do however form a carpet of ground cover in sunny spots which erupt into bloom around July and are a hive of activity for pollinating insects, bees and butterflies. Many of these tiny creeping thymes don’t have the full bodied flavour of regular thyme and are also difficult to harvest and so not much used for culinary or medicinal purposes. If you have one growing in full sun between one and seven in the afternoon in summer that’s fantastic, but direct sun is reduced to about three hours in winter and generally it just isn’t enough. Most thymes are pretty hardy and cope well with frosts, it is the wetness and lack of light over winter that can finish them off. Initially it will have to be watered if the weather is dry until established, but after that it should creep around nicely on its own. It also needs a well-drained soil and flat growing creeping thymes like this are perfect for cracks in paving, patios, walls, pots and rockeries which are all free draining. Thyme is a plant that just has to be in full sun – it can never really be too hot for this pretty herb, the more sun the better. In common with other thymes, the flowers are alight with foraging bees and butterflies in the summer. A very attractive creeping thyme with dark leaves and crimson flowers, this thyme doesn’t have as much flavour and aroma as other types but is a very striking ground cover herb. ![]()
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