Tall carpets of green aromatic lemon scented leaves.
Thymus serpyllum red carpet.
Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer.
Dense cushion or mound forming.
Variety or cultivar red carpet red carpet is a mat forming evergreen subshrub with finely hairy trailing stems bearing tiny linear to elliptic aromatic mid to dark green leaves and whorls of tiny two lipped red to reddish pink flowers in summer.
This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects.
Red reddish pink in summer.
Thymus serpyllum known by the common names of breckland thyme breckland wild thyme wild thyme creeping thyme or elfin thyme is a species of flowering plant in the mint family lamiaceae native to most of europe and north africa.
Rhs plants for pollinators plants.
Thymus serpyllum red carpet is.
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.
There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor.
Plant thymus serpyllum red carpet thyme red carpet herbs in atomica garden plant collection.
This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer.
It is a low usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm 1 in tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm 4 in long.
Blooms are beloved by butterflies.
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.
Dark green in all seasons.
Plants are blanketed in pink flowers in late spring and summer.
Thymus serpyllum magic carpet is a choice creeping thyme which forms low growing 2 in.
It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by rhs experts.
Thymus serpyllum magic carpet.