Thymus Serpyllum Red Carpet

Variety or cultivar red carpet red carpet is a mat forming evergreen subshrub with finely hairy trailing stems bearing tiny linear to elliptic aromatic mid to dark green leaves and whorls of tiny two lipped red to reddish pink flowers in summer.

Thymus serpyllum red carpet.

Red reddish pink in summer. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet is a choice creeping thyme which forms low growing 2 in. Creeping thyme thymus serpyllum magic carpet if you have a stepping stone path or a flagstone patio growing magic carpet seeds is a great way to add lovely low growing thyme to the walkway and patio crevices. Thymus serpyllum magic carpet.

This is a low creeping variety the foliage is dark green smothered by bright magenta pink flowers in early summer. Rhs plants for pollinators plants. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers.

Plant thymus serpyllum red carpet thyme red carpet herbs in atomica garden plant collection. Dark green in all seasons. It is included in an evolving list of plants carefully researched and chosen by rhs experts. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.

There are a great many selections of thyme grown in gardens all of them with edible leaves and some degree of fragrance and flavor. Creeping thyme ground cover is only 2 4 inches high and it spreads and flowers for most of the summer. It is a low usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm 1 in tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm 4 in long. Blooms are beloved by butterflies.

Thymus serpyllum known by the common names of breckland thyme breckland wild thyme wild thyme creeping thyme or elfin thyme is a species of flowering plant in the mint family lamiaceae native to most of europe and north africa. 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. Thymus serpyllum red carpet is. Creeping thyme thymus serpyllum magic carpet if you have a stepping stone path or a flagstone patio growing magic carpet seeds is a great way to add lovely low growing thyme to the walkway and patio crevices.

Plants are blanketed in pink flowers in late spring and summer.