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• Creeping Thyme provides an excellent ground cover and tolerates light foot traffic in place of a traditional lawn. It also replaces standard thyme in the kitchen.
• When walked on Creeping Thyme produces a fragrant smell ranging from herbal to lemon
• Attracts butterflies to your lawn
• Grows 3-8″ tall and produces small lavender colored flowers
• These seeds are extremely small, almost 3 million seeds per pound, which can provide impressive coverage if used sparingly, or easy planting if casually sprinkled. Press groups of about 5 seeds lightly into soil surface (do not cover with soil) 6-12″ apart when the soil reaches 70 degrees and the threat of frost has passed. Keep soil moist, but not waterlogged, until germination which can be slow and take up to 4 weeks. Please provide your seeds the attention they need until germination.

Magic Carpet is the perfect ground cover plant! It only reaches 2 – 4 inches tall, and it has masses of tiny pink blooms that are very attractive to butterflies. Magic Carpet is a creeping thyme, or Thymus serpyllum, that is well-suited for edging the flower border or walkway, growing in-between pavers or in the rock garden. It is a hardy, long-lived perennial that establishes easily from seeds. Prepare an outdoor seedbed. All tiny seeds are best established indoors, but can be successfully started outdoors.

• Creeping thyme is a beautiful, dwarf, ground cover plant which blooms with dense red flowers for many months.
• When looking for the perfect ground cover seed, look no further than red creeping thyme. This variety is known as Magic Carpet and grows in USDA zones 4 – 8.
• Thymus serpyllum seeds are ready for planting. Keep seeds continually moist until germination which may mean watering several times a day for short intervals to keep seed continually moist. This perennial groundcover plant will give you years of color.
• The most common error in germination failure is planting the seeds too deep or not watering enough. Seeds need to stay moist continually until germination!
• Many people consider this to be an elfin thyme since it is so dwarf only growing around 2 inches in height. Sow 500 seeds for every 10 SF of ground cover you want to plant.

One of the most popular ground covers, Thymus serpyllum, is a perennial creeping thyme that is perfect for edging the border! Mother of Thyme is an ideal choice for growing between walkway stones or bricks or used as a general ground cover. Like other thymes, the leaves are highly fragrant; and it’s wonderful to breathe in the fresh scent as you walk along a garden path! This low-growing, mat-forming perennial with slim stems is lined with tiny, oval, hairy leaves which tend to be dark green. Clusters of pale lavender flowers appear in summer on plants that reach 2 – 4 inches tall and spread to 24 inches wide. Mother of Thyme prefers well-drained soil in full sun. For best coverage as a groundcover, avoid planting in very cold or wet areas. It’s an evergreen so it looks nice even during the cold months. Directly sow the seeds outdoors after frost danger has passed. Press the seed into the soil and keep it consistently moist until germination occurs. Germination usually takes place in 21 days when temperatures are 70F.

• Creeping thyme is a low growing ground cover plant only reaching 2 – 4 inches in height and grows as a perennial in USDA Zones 4 – 8.
• Thymus Serpyllum, Mother of Thyme, is an ideal choice for growing between walkway stones or bricks or used as a general ground cover. It has beautiful lavender flowers in dense clusters.
• Like other thymes, the leaves are highly fragrant; and it’s wonderful to breathe in the fresh scent as you walk along a garden path!
• This low-growing, mat-forming perennial with slim stems is lined with tiny, oval, hairy leaves which tend to be dark green.
• Directly sow the seeds outdoors after frost danger has passed and temperatures are warm. Press the seed into the soil and keep it consistently moist until germination occurs. 5000 seeds covers 100 square feet.