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Creeping Thyme Plants - Description
- Potted Thyme Plant
- Thymus praecox Coccineus
- Creeping Thyme
- Colour: Purple / Pink
- Potted Plant
- Pot Size: 9cm
Creeping Thyme Plants - Characteristics
- Plant Type: Low spreading plant
- Ground cover
- Lawn alternative
- Evergreen herbaceous plant
- Fully Grown Size: 25cm high, 50cm spread
- Moderate growth rate
- Flowering Time: Summer
- Foliage: Aromatic & evergreen foliage forms a soft cushion
- Sow: All year round
- Hardiness: Fully hardy (-10 up to -15)
Creeping Thyme Plants - Planting Instructions
- Ensure soil is moist before planting
- Thyme is happy in dry soils & soils of low fertility
- Grow in sandy, gritty soil
- If soil is poor draining, add plenty of potting grit to the base of the hole
- Happy in sun or partial shade
- Spacing: 25 - 50cm apart
- Prepare bed by digging over soil & adding fertilizer or manure
- Dig hole roughly twice the size of the plant pot
- Handle pots with care
- Squeeze side of pots to remove plant
- Firm in well
- Water again after planting
- Benefits from a hard prune every few years to prevent plants getting leggy
- Clumps can be divided to propagate new plants
Creeping Thyme Plants - A Lawn Alternative
- Space plants 35cm apart
- Number of plants per metre = 8 plants
- For best effect plant 2 colours of thyme
- Also add some ornamental grasses such as carex, festuca & stipa
- If soil has poor drainage, add drainage grit
- It is important to note that a lot of weeding is required in the first 2 years before lawn is established
- To reduce maintenance you can mulch up around the base of each plant for the first 2 years
- Other plants suited to lawn alternative planting
- Sagina subulata - Moss
- Gypsophila repens
- Ajuga - Bungleweed
- Chamomile nobilis
