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Potted Thyme Plant - Description
- Potted Thyme Plant
- Thymus Praecox Albiflorus
- Creeping White Flowering Thyme
- Common Name: Creeping Thyme
- Potted Plant
- Pot Size: 9cm Pot
Potted Thyme Plant - Characteristics
- Plant Type: Ground cover plant
- Habit: Low spreading plant
- Suited to lawn alternative / lawn substitute
- Evergreen herbaceous plant
- Fully Grown Size: 7cm high, 50cm spread
- Moderate growth rate
- Flower Colour: Purple / pink
- Flowering Time: May to August
- Foliage: Aromatic & evergreen foliage forms a soft & dense cushion
- Hardy plant, able for light & occasional traffic
- Sow: All year round
- Hardiness: Fully hardy
Potted Thyme Plant - Uses
- Both ornamental & culinary uses
- Popular choice as a lawn alternative
- Can be grown in walls & crevices
- Suited to a rockery & alpine flower bed
- Position in between paving & stepping stones
- Thyme will cover bare soil & reduce garden maintenance
- Position plants towards the front of borders
- Some great companion plants include pink flowering Thyme. Lavenders, Rosemary & Saxifraga
Potted Thyme Plant - 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: 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
Potted Thyme Plant - 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
