Thymus serpyllum
(Wild Thyme)

Family - Lamiaceae
Category - Perennial, herb
Origin - Europe
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H5
Height - up to 25cm
Width - up to 45cm
Location - The Terrace

Description: A low-growing Perennial herb with a mound-forming habit and trailing stems. The small, mid-green leaves are ovate to Elliptic in shape and aromatic. Tubular 2-lipped flowers are a bright shade of violet-pink. The Blooms are held in dense whorls at the tips of the stems and are produced from early into midsummer. Highly attractive to pollinating insects.

Additional common name - Breckland Thyme

Flower:

Small, tubular 2-lipped flowers are a bright shade of violet-pink. The blooms are held in dense whorls at the tips of the stems and are produced in June and July. The flowers are rich in nectar and very attractive to bees.

Flower colour: Purple-pink

Flower shape: Tubular 2-lipped flowers in whorls

Flowering time: June, July

Foliage:

Small mid-green leaves are ovate to Elliptic in shape and aromatic. The leaves are held in opposite pairs on slender, trailing stems.

Foliage Senescence: Evergreen

Foliage Shape: Ovate to elliptic

Propagation:

Division, seed.

Cultivation:

Best in full sun in well drained soil.