Thyme Pink Carpet

Needs a dry and sunny location can take light foot traffic.

Thyme pink carpet.

Silver carpet is a nearly flat ground cover for sunny borders. Magic carpet thyme is perfect for edging the flower border rock gardens walkways patios and in containers. Very soft flat spreading carpet zones 5 6. Easy to grow and a great groundcover it produces a carpet of colorful flowers from early summer through fall.

The purple carpet grows at a low height creating a purple carpet of flowers that gardeners can walk on without damaging the plant. It has no scent so it s not used for cooking. The ground cover plants are full of tiny pink clusters of blooms that are attractive to butterflies. The red creeping thyme produces small but pretty flowers that produce the typical thyme scent.

It prefers soil with good drainage and a slightly alkaline balance. Woolly thyme thymus pseudolanuginosus. Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of small salmon pink flowers. Rich in nectar they attract butterflies.

Once established creeping thyme is drought tolerant another bonus for my drought afflicted area. Deschampsia caespitosa tufted hairgrass is a perennial bunch grass from mountain meadows. On banks try scarlet flame carpet phlox or moonbeam coreopsis drought tolerant and it has a sweet flower. It creates a purple carpet that can be walked over hence its name.

The plant does well in either full sun or partial shade. Caraway thyme thymus herba barona. It spreads quickly and can reach 24 inches in diameter. A variety of the genus thymus sepyllum pink chintz thyme is characterized by its fuzzy dark green foliage with light to dark pink flowers.

Award winning thymus serpyllum pink chintz creeping thyme is a dwarf aromatic sub shrub forming a carpet of tiny rounded slightly woolly dark green leaves. It cascades nicely in rock gardens and can grow in patio cracks. Individual plants will spread to 18 inches. This plant is low growing with pale pink flowers and the scent of caraway.

Rich in nectar they attract butterflies. 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. Red creeping thyme would work where you are and so would ice although it allows a few weeds to peek through but it spreads like a dream. Squaw carpet is an evergreen ground cover that grows on open slopes and under jeffrey or ponderosa pines from 4000 to 7000 elevation.

Blooming profusely from early to mid summer it features clusters of tiny bright magenta pink flowers.