Leaves: Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Broadleaf Evergreen Leaf Color: Gray/Silver Green Leaf Value To Gardener: Fragrant Leaf Type: Simple Leaf Shape: Elliptical Orbicular Leaf Margin: Entire Hairs Present: Yes Leaf Length: < 1 inch Leaf Width: < 1 inch Leaf Description: Tiny oval to round leaves are pubescent and slightly fragrant.

Flowers: Flower Color: Pink Purple/Lavender Flower Inflorescence: Head Flower Value To Gardener: Showy Flower Bloom Time: Spring Flower Shape: Tubular Flower Petals: 4-5 petals/rays Flower Size: < 1 inch Flower Description: Tiny lavender-pink 4-petaled tubular flowers appear in summer.

Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours) Soil Texture: Loam (Silt) Sand Shallow Rocky Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Occasionally Dry Available Space To Plant: Less than 12 inches 12 inches-3 feet NC Region: Coastal Mountains Piedmont USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b.

Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Ground Cover Herbaceous Perennial Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Broadleaf Evergreen Habit/Form: Creeping Horizontal Spreading Growth Rate: Slow Maintenance: Low Texture: Fine.

Attributes: Genus: Thymus Species: serpyllum Family: Lamiaceae Life Cycle: Perennial Woody Edibility: Leaves are usable as a flavoring in cooking Dimensions: Height: 0 ft.

Tags: #evergreen #small spaces #drought tolerant #low growing #purple flowers #fragrant leaves #edging #spreading #groundcover #rock garden #pollinator plant #stepping stones #subshrub #poor soils tolerant #border front #sensory garden #walkway planting #garden walls #foot traffic tolerant #Guilford Crevice Garden #container plant #wet soils intolerant #woody perennial See this plant in the following landscapes: Dry Rock Stream Garden Collector’s Garden Crevice Garden at the Guilford County Extension Center Cultivars / Varieties: It can suffer root rot on poorly drained soils. Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: No serious problems. Use this plant to cascade over walls, between stepping stones, for edging border fronts, in containers, or rock gardens. Prune as needed to reduce an overabundance of woody stems. Tiny tubular pink flowers appear in summer that attract pollinators.

Preference is for full sun in sandy loam or rocky soils with good drainage.

It grows only 1-3 inches high and spreads to 1 to 1.5 feet. What the flowers lack in size they make up for in number when covering the fragrant grayish blue-green. It forms dense, 1 to 2 inch high mats of tiny glossy leaves and equally tiny violet-lavender flowers. Phonetic Spelling THY-mus ser-PIE-lum DescriptionĮlfin Thyme is a miniature cultivar grown primarily as an ornamental groundcover, not as a culinary herb. Elfin Creeping Thyme - Thymus serpyllum Elfin - 6 Pack of 3.5' Pint Pots Elfin is one of the best and our favorite of the creeping thymes.

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