Key features

• •Name: Creeping Thyme Scientific Name: Thymus Serpyllum Other Common Names: Breckland thyme, Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme, or elfin thyme
• •Color: Purple Hardiness Zones: 3-9 Plant Seeds: Outdoors After Frost / Indoors Weeks Before Last Frost Plant Spacing: 9 - 15" Cycle: Perennial
• •Bloom Season - Summer Light Requirements: Full Sun, Partial Shade Soil & Water Preferences: Average Other: Attracts bees, birds, & butterflies,
• •Sowing: Direct sow creeping thyme seeds in early spring, planting just below the surface of the soil. Keep the soil lightly moist until germination, which usually occurs within 3-4 weeks. This plant can also be started indoors 4-6 weeks before the last frost of spring.
• •Growing: Water seedlings occasionally until they become established. Though they prefer average or slightly moist soil, mature plants tolerate drought and poor soil as well as rocky soil or gravel. This plant will self-seed readily, and attracts butterflies and bees.
• •It makes an excellent ground cover or border plant. Mature plants can be divided. Harvesting: Creeping thyme blossoms do not perform well as cut flowers, and are best enjoyed outdoors as ground cover.