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CREEPING THYME Herb Seeds Perennial Ground Cover Just 5 – 8 inches tall, creeping thyme ground cover plants are completely covered in 1/4-inch bells of carmine-pink for months on end. Butterflies love it and so will you! The foliage of creeping thyme is attractive even when not in bloom, too, with dark green, slightly hairy leaves. And because it’s a long-lived perennial ground cover is hardy just about everywhere in the U.S., you can expect years of beauty from this trouble-free groundcover! Creeping Thyme (Thymus Serpyllum) : robust, long-blooming beauty of the more expensive plant varieties. Well, this creeping thyme ground cover has swept all that away! This super-vigorous, lemon-scented, brightly-flowered variety spreads 18 inches in no time in the sunny garden, giving you months of deep pink blooms and heavenly fragrance for mere pennies! Plant creeping thyme in rock gardens, walls, bare spots in sunny beds and borders, and just about anywhere that needs some quick, permanent coverage. This is a low-growing wildflower is used as a flowering ground cover plant. Creeping thyme tolerates dry soil and needs little care after it is established. It self-sows readily, dropping it seeds after flowering season is over and then this new seed sprouts the next spring keep a robust stand of creeping thyme ground cover thriving. · Season: Perennial · Height: 5 – 8 inches · Hardiness: Zones: 4 to 9 · Habit: Evergreen · Growth Rate: Moderate · Site Requirements: Sun to light shade; prefers well-drained light-textured soil with modest fertility · Form: Low, dense mat; sprawls haphazardly · Texture: Fine · Deer Resistant: Yes · Foliage: .2 to .3 inch dark green, slighty hairy leaves; pleasant fragrance of mint when crushed · Flower: Pink/Rose · Bloom Season: Late June through September

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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.