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Growing to 15–30 cm (6–12 in) tall by 40 cm (16 in) wide, it is a bushy, woody-based evergreen subshrub with small, highly aromatic, grey-green leaves and clusters of purple or pink flowers in early summer. [3] It is useful in the garden as groundcover, where it can be short-lived, but is easily propagated from cuttings. [3]
The lowest growing of the widely used thyme is good for walkways. It is also an important caterpillar food plant for large and common blue butterflies. [22] Thymus vulgaris (common thyme, English thyme, summer thyme, winter thyme, French thyme, [23] or garden thyme) [24] is a commonly used culinary herb. It also has medicinal uses.
Most herbs, brassicas, [20] cucumber, wheat, onion, [6] cabbage [6] Hoverflies, wasps: Growing near herbs will increase their oil production. Chervil: Anthriscus cerefolium: Radish, [6] lettuce, broccoli: Aphids: Radish: Loves shade, fortunately it grows well with shade-tolerant food plants; will make radishes grown near it taste spicier Chives ...
Use this guide to grow snowdrop flowers that will reliably bloom in late winter, even coming up through snow. ... An area under the shade of an ornamental tree in summer may still be in partial to ...
The 3rd Saturday Plant Sale at the New Hanover Arboretum will be selling rosemary, mint, calendula, borage and Cuban oregano.
Thymus serpyllum, known by the common names of Breckland thyme, [3] Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme, or elfin thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub forming creeping stems up to 10 cm (4 in) tall. The oval evergreen leaves are up to 8 mm.
Caraway thyme is a creeping, woody-based perennial, growing to 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 in) high and spreading out across the ground to a width of 30 cm (12 in). The leaves are 4 to 10 mm (0.2 to 0.4 in) long, lanceolate, dark glossy green and hairy. The foliage has a strong aroma of caraway.
The plants grow up to 40 centimetres (16 in) tall. The stems tend to be narrow or even wiry. The leaves are evergreen in most species, arranged in opposite pairs, oval, entire, and small, 4–20 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, and usually aromatic.