Great Groundcovers - Creeping Thyme UPDATE in 3rd Year (Thymus) & How to Divide
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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Let's take a look at my Creeping Thyme in its third year! I have absolutely fallen in love with the performance of this Thyme - it's low maintenance, drought tolerant, heat resistant, evergreen and it truly unifies the garden beds it is growing in. I also demonstrate how to divide you Thyme to create more free plants!
I have even started growing a few more species of Thymus beyond the wooly species, which I show in the video. Here you can see Thymus pseudolagunosis, Thymus praecox and Thymus serpyllum.
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0:45 my experience growing Creeping Thyme
3:00 Dividing
5:30 Designing with Creeping Thyme
6:00 Different Thyme Species
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Zone 6a here. I planted wooly thyme last year. It is a very drought resistant plant, i never needed to water it except maybe twice when things got really dry out here. It's great in the winter, survived no problem when we went down to -20F. It turns a nice purple color in the cold. I love it. Thanks for the propagation help!
Yesss I love the purple color on mine too!
Sheesh so slow growing
What it lacks in speed it more than makes up for in low maintenance beauty
I bought a tiny sized creeping thyme plant for $0.87 this past July and split it more than 10 different ways lol. Some parts had just strands of roots or foliage. Each part seems healthy and viable and grew to half the size of the original plant! I’m hoping it will last the winter and keep growing to its full potential.
It should keep growing!
Thanks for sharing! My instincts told me just roots would grow. The energy is actually focused on the roots, not on the leaves.
@@NaturesInfiniteWELLth-fo6rs still growing and going strong
Sprinkle bonemeal on them in March, they'll bloom.
Thanks for the tip!
I find woolly thyme grows and spreads much faster without mulch around it. And it does need to be watered more often until well established. The moisture balance is important because too much water will kill it. Thanks for the video. I have several types of thyme and I do love the red thyme most in summer, but woolly thyme can have a pretty red color in the winter.
Thanks for adding in your experience!!
Have you tried eating it? I hear that the woolly variety is not the best for culinary.
Theee years is too long to look that sparse…..I’ll be planting mine no more than a foot apart. I’ll thin it out as I add more perennials.
Nice! I love mine
Beautiful- love to see the progress! I’ve had lots of luck with creeping jenny as a ground cover since in my area it doesn’t die in the winter :)
I love the creeping Jenny too!
And it smells amazing 🤩
Yessss
I just bought a pink one, it’s very hard to get here in Australia. We get loads of very hot sun here so I hope it does well as I would like to divide in the future. Yours look amazing, can’t wait to see it in flower.
Best of luck with yours!!!
Growing well? I hope it can handle the heat
I am a Thyme addict. I have just eaten garlic mushrooms with thyme and a pizza with thyme and oregano flowers. I have a special jar of thyme flowers for salads that come from a 28-year-old plant. The older they are, the more potent they become. Harvesting the tops regularly, fills in the bald spots and promotes branching. No shop bought thyme tastes like my slow dried, oily herb.
It’s one of the best groundcovers I’ve come across!
I’ve grown creeping thyme very easily from seed. I like it very much. Good tips and pointers here. I’m a new subscriber from southern Lancaster County, Pa. So we are neighbors.
It’s such a great groundcover! Neighbors 🙌🙌
All my creeping thyme is from seeds. Ohio.
Did you just scatter it on the dirt?
@@shecalledmelisalou can’t remember, it was several years ago, just read the packet of seeds.
As I just mentioned in your first creeping thyme video, I just planted some of this to fill in gaps around stones in a border at my garden (the border is 3 feet wide at stones spaced 2-6 inches apart). Not sure how it will handle the wetness of coastal Alaska (zone 6b). I'm pretty new to this. If it fails I will try again with something else (open to ideas). So far the seedlings have come up nicely despite a monster rainy summer.
Hi, I think you may be correct. Thyme will not do well with 'wet feet' during the winter. If planted in a very rocky porous area it may be fine. but if moisture is held, it will rot. feel free to send me photos on instagram and I may be able to offer some ideas.
Thanks! Can I do this in June with my creeping thyme or am I too late? I’ve had it 3 years and some areas have started to flower this year. Am I too late to divide it? I think the one I have is the cocineous group one 🙏🏽
Not too late!!
... That does happen from thyme to thyme ...
Thank you for the info!
Hi Devin, does Creeping Thyme do well in shady areas as well? Thanks!
They prefer at least a few hours of sun!
@@plantvibrations Thanks so much
Great video, thanks... Just wondering if anyone has had any luck with woolly thyme or other types of creeping thyme near or under black walnut trees? Thanks.
Ohhh from what I understand thyme may not be the best choice against the juglone. Furthermore walnuts tend to cast quite a shadow, thyme would prefer more sun
This stuff took over our yard in my childhood home. It smelled amazing when walked on, but we did step on bees a few times as kids
Oh jeez I can imagine that would happen!
When does in bloom? When is it best to cut in half?
It blooms in summer. Best time to divide is early autumn
Exactly the information I was looking for and was really struggling to find! Thank you!
Glad I could help! Hopefully I have more videos that you enjoy
That looks great Devin I was wondering if you have heard of or seen a black locust thorn tree .I have three big ones here on my property.i fell into one and it hurts they have big thorns on the trunk they hurt bad swelled up my hand. I stay away from them now. Thank you for all the great plant videos.😊
Oh noooo! that is not fun at all. i once ate a prickly pear from a cactus that I thought I had cleaned out all the needles, ended up picking them off my tongue for an hour
location?
Chester county PA
I’ve been growing it from seeds indoors. We are past germination but feels like it hit a wall. Very slow and I don’t see much growth.
I’m sure that when it warms up in spring and you can start placing them outside they will start back up
I see in your store you have the Thyme I've been searching for. Every other thyme I see that says creeping grows 6-8in. Would you happen to have seeds of these? I like the process of growing everything myself.
Unfortunately we do not offer seeds
I planted creeping thyme plugs that I started from seed and planted in 2021. Now it did spread and get pretty thick. But it grew much taller than the 2-3 inches I had always read was their max height. Some stayed at around 4-5 inches tall but in other sections it was like 6-8 inches tall. The blooms were also very unimpressive. The flowers were not the bright purple or red in the seed seller's photos. The flowers are like a light lavender. They brought in bees but it wasn't thick with flowers like in the photos. Pretty disappointing considering I planted like 150+plugs.
Hmm sounds like they sold you a different species than advertised
Hello from California. You have a lovely looking yard, thank you for the glimpse of Pennsylvania . I'm wondering if your thyme has a lovely fragrance
Yes it does!! Anytime I step on it I can smell it
In your planting video, you said you spaced them 18" apart, in this one you said 24".
Just want to kindly point that out, as a point of reference for anyone (like myself) on here looking for my own spacing purposes and any potential results rendered.
For those who are curious, I have provided the link below; it's @ 5:26.
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Thanks for pointing out. In all likely cases I spaced each out exactly 21” 😂
I have creeping thyme growing between flagstone, but moss is invading them. Any idea how to keep the moss at bay. I am in Western Washinton where moss is ubiquitous 😢
Oh jeez I’m not sure, I’ve been to your region so I understand what you mean
Thank you. I have some in a pretty shady spot and it's doing pretty well. I want to plant some in a sunny spot. It's a lovely plant
Sounds great! They’re wonderful plants
I watered mine when it dried out and it filled in all on its own. No dividing and replanting necessary.
Awesome
I bought seeds a few years ago its going crazy ❤ I'll have to thin it out soon 😊
Niiice
a great place to plant flowers so much room😊
Absolutely!
planted thousands of seeds throughout my garden and in pots. So far only seeds in pots have sprouted. Will be transplanting as soon as they grow bigger. Can’t wait.
wow they spread extremely slow lol. Thanks for the info
Some spread slower than others
Hello! I have large chunks of elfin thyme growing between large flagstone steppers. The pieces that are growing over the stones are mat like with what looks like a dense network of roots. There was a thin layer of soil on the stone where these pieces were growing. Could they be roots or is this just what elfin thyme looks like underneath? I need to add to bare spaces and wondered if cutting off these pieces would be a viable option. Thanks and great video!
Hi! They are not roots! That is just what it looks like underneath. You need to get a chunk of the roots from below the soil surface for the division to work!
@@plantvibrations I thought so but wanted to confirm. Thanks so much for replying!
Will it grow inthe hot tropics?
@@marcymuneses122hmmm, I’m not sure. It’s hardy in zones 4-9.
It was very helpful, mine are getting germinate. Thanks ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video! It's beautiful, but how do you kill grass that grows in between the ground covers?
It’s tough! Pulling by hand is probably the only real way
@@plantvibrations oh bummer, I heard vinegar will kill the grass but not the plants?
It took 3 years for that to get to that stage?
most perennials take three years to reach full maturity
Zone 4 and 5..planted lemon thyme in my herb garden..taking over. I’m splitting and moving to a sunny dry hill to help shore it up with the roots. And it smells amazing
Good idea!
I grow the English variety for eating. What do you think of the lemon for taste?
@@mrsillywalk hi there! I feel you may have meant tea, I may be mistaken. But I think it would be tasty and really good for you!
Can you show us when it flowers?
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Are there good groundcovers for places with a lot of shadow, little sunshine and spreading easily?
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check out the video I pasted for an idea
@@plantvibrations thanks for the information
Great information. Great presentation! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for watching!
Which variety is this?
This is wooly thyme
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:-)
Very helpful. Thank you! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful & interesting!
It’s a great plant!
Good info!
Thanks Myra!
Wooly lime is thymus peacox
So it’s a early flowering thymus
But the wooly variant does not bloom that great
Thank you for helping clarify!
Nah, three years ago this guy was a toddler.
LOL! i was born 1989 :)
nice...do these grow well in coastal west florida? quick google search says so...
Hmm I think it may be too warm for you there to be honest