#ELFIN THYME FULL#

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: 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:

#ELFIN THYME FULL#

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, 5b, 5a, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8b, 8a.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.This plant needs sharp drainage to succeed. It creates a versatile groundcover that will cover dry slopes, fill in between stepping stones or creep over a rock. 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 Elfin Thyme is simply gorgeous when in bloom with its light pink flowers covering the green-gray foliage completely in summer. See this plant in the following landscapes: Dry Rock Stream Garden Crevice Garden, Guilford County Dry Rock Stream Garden Crevice Garden, Guilford County Collector’s Garden 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. Phonetic Spelling THY-mus ser-PIE-lum DescriptionĮlfin Thyme is a miniature cultivar grown primarily as an ornamental groundcover, not as a culinary herb.

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