A low growing aromatic culinary herbs with a good thyme flavour enhanced by a spicy kick.
Description
- Aromatic
- Great culinary herb
- Low growing
- Loved by bees
A low growing thyme with the traditional thyme flavour combined with a spicy chilli kick. A good drought tolerant herb that attracts plenty of bees and other pollinators with its pretty pink flowers. Perfect for culinary uses, particularly marinades and chicken .An antiseptic and antifungal herb due to the essential oil thymol, it can be used as an external wash for cuts and sores. A sprig in the hair of fair maidens was thought to make them irresistible to men and was also carried for courage and energy. In common with other thymes the flowers are alight with foraging bees and butterflies in the summer.
Plant Care
- Height: 10-30cm
- Type: Hardy
- Aspect: Sun
- Soil: Well drained
- Flower colour: Pink
- Flowering period: June - August
Thyme is a plant that just has to be in full sun – it can never really be too hot for this pretty herb, the more sun the better. It also needs a well-drained soil and flat growing creeping thymes like this are perfect for cracks in paving, patios, walls, pots and rockeries which are all free draining. Initially it will have to be watered if the weather is dry until established, but after that it should creep around nicely on its own. Most thymes are pretty hardy and cope well with frosts, it is the wetness and lack of light over winter that can finish them off. If you have one growing in full sun between one and seven in the afternoon in summer that’s fantastic, but direct sun is reduced to about three hours in winter and generally it just isn’t enough.
Usage
Grown in full sun this low growing pretty thyme will impart its spicy thyme flavour into marinades, especially for chicken. Leaves and stems can be chopped directly into the marinade or into other dishes.