Thyme Serphyllum Magic Carpet

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Thyme serphyllum magic carpet.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. Magic carpet thyme is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground hugging habit of growth. Excellent between pavers along walkways or patios or spilling over rocks and retaining walls.

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. Magic carpet blooms a week earlier than our creeping thyme seed and the flowers are just a little longer. There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer.

Rich in nectar they attract 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. Magic carpet thyme seed p 1 2 fs z4 8 a very low growing creeping thyme cultivar bearing masses of pink flowers.