![]() Join 576 other subscribers Tags A Desert Feast Adobo amaranth Amy Valdés Schwemm Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture Bean Tree Farm BKWFarms Inc. Please use the contact me if you have any questions. It is an excellent plant that serves as ground cover to provide protection from the sunny regions in your garden. My policy is that you are free to use a very short excerpt which must give proper credit to the author, and must include a link back to the original post on our site. The creeping thyme is a perennial species of the Thymus. I have received many requests to reprint my work. Our growing guide reveals all the best care tips by Lorin Nielsen Last Updated: Febru10 min read In rock gardens, wooly thyme reigns supreme. Description This low-growing creeping thyme with hairy or woolly leaves and stems, can be quite difficult to delineate between other hairy and non-hairy creeping thymes. Wooly Thyme: From Stepping Stones To Ground Covers As a ground cover or edging plant, wooly thyme is easy to start and maintain. It was also formerly known as Thymus lanuginosus. It is a hardy ground cover plant for dry soil which will grow approximately 2 to 5 inches in height. Wooly Thyme thrives in dry, well-drained locations that receive full sun. More about thyme in my books which I will be selling and signing at the Tucson Festival of Books March 14 & 15 this year – Southwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening (Cool Springs Press 2014, $23), and Father Kino’s Herbs: Growing & Using Them Today (Tierra del Sol Press 2011, $15) also available at Tucson area bookstores, nurseries, botanical gardens, and state parks. Thymus pseudolanuginosus - commonly called woolly thyme - is now also classified as Thymus praecox subsp. Whether you spell it Wooly Thyme or Woolly Thyme, both versions are correct, this beautiful fuzzy ground cover plant is an excellent choice for any garden or landscape. Great in borders around tree trunks and can tolerate a wide range of shade or sun. Great for replacing electrolytes after a day working in the garden! You can remove the lawn, position several large rocks and allow the wholly thyme to cover the entire surface area and waterfall over the rocks. Used along stone walls or drops and will spill over and hang down, creating the effect of a waterfall of flowers. Fresh eggs and day-old bread are topped with a boiling broth made from water, sprigs of thyme and some olive oil. This 8 ounce jar gets refilled several times a year.įor a quick meal at the end of a long day make Sopa de Farigola, or Thyme Soup, a dish popular in the Catalonia region of northeastern Spain, and thus part of our Sonoran heritage as well.
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