Magic Carpet Red Creeping Thyme

It grows flat and covers a lot of area quickly.

Magic carpet red creeping thyme. Creeping thyme is a beautiful dwarf ground cover plant which blooms with dense red flowers for many months. Does best in full sun but may tolerate some light shade. Linear to elliptic slightly hairy green leaves. Add a layer of mulch to prevent weed competition keeping away from the crowns of the plants.

Excellent between pavers along walkways or patios or spilling over rocks and retaining walls. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet height. 2 4 inches.

Primarily used as a ground cover thymus serpyllum magic carpet creeping thyme is a dwarf aromatic sub shrub forming a tight cushion of tiny rounded dark green leaves. Its flowers are very small but prolific. Creeping thyme is easily divided in spring or early fall and even small pieces will take root and grow. Clusters of tubular 2 lipped pink flowers each between 1 8 and 3 8 inch long.

Creeping thyme is great for edging or between stepping stones in the herb garden as it handles light foot traffic with ease and is drought tolerant once established. Magic carpet thyme seed p 1 2 fs z4 8 a very low growing creeping thyme cultivar bearing masses of pink flowers. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. A low growing spreading plant that has purplish red flowers throughout summer red creeping thyme thymus praecox coccineus reaches heights of only 3 to 6 inches tall but spreads of 12 to 18.

The ground cover plants are full of tiny pink clusters of blooms that are attractive to butterflies. Drought tolerant once established. When looking for the perfect ground cover seed look no further than red creeping thyme. Late spring to summer.

Also referred to as coccineus this thyme can be identified by magenta flowers. Can be used in between stepping stones and will tolerate light traffic. This variety is known as magic carpet and grows in usda zones 4 8. 12 15 inches.

Magic carpet thyme is perfect for edging the flower border rock gardens walkways patios and in containers. Thymus serpyllum seeds are ready for planting. This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.