thyme flower seeds Field Thyme Seeds (Thymus pulegioides)

thyme flower seeds Field Thyme Seeds (Thymus pulegioides)A wild and naturalizing (but non invasive) European meadow species excellent in semi wild lawns and gardens. Field thyme is a slow growing, slow spreading little plant (almost like a tiny shrub) that graces the world with citrus scented foliage and deeply magenta flowers (quite favorable to honey bees, bumble bees, and carder bees). But, it is a plant that needs relatively shorter neighboring vegetation not to be choked out. (Think short meadows or

A wild and naturalizing (but non-invasive) European meadow species – excellent in semi-wild lawns and gardens.

Field thyme is a slow-growing, slow-spreading little plant (almost like a tiny shrub) that graces the world with citrus-scented foliage and deeply magenta flowers (quite favorable to honey bees, bumble bees, and carder bees). But, it is a plant that needs relatively shorter neighboring vegetation not to be choked out. (Think short meadows or field grasses less than 3 feet in height). Closer in, around the house, this is a plant that does very well in sunny, dry rock gardens with minimal, low nutrient soil.

To get a sense of this plant, think of it as a bit less dense and a bit more woody than its close relative wild creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum) – however it is shorter and more horizontal in its growth than standard culinary thyme (Thymus vulgaris).  

This plant holds some incredible potential for use in tenacious multi-species ground cover complexes; consider it companion-planted within an ankle-high thicket of cranberry, strawberry, and lingonberry, wild creeping thyme, kinnikinnick, small wild onions and self heal, little tufty grasses with sedums and mosses – a kind of landscape vastly more intriguing and beautiful than a conventional lawn.

100+ Seeds (1-gram)