Similar in use, appearance, growth, and maintenance.
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Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Soil Texture: Loam (Silt) Sand Shallow Rocky Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Occasionally Dry Available Space To Plant: Less than 12 inches NC Region: Coastal Mountains Piedmont USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Edible Ground Cover Herb Perennial Habit/Form: Mounding Growth Rate: Medium Maintenance: Low Texture: Fine.Attributes: Genus: Thymus Species: citriodorus Family: Lamiaceae Uses (Ethnobotany): Used in herbal medicine and aroma therapies Life Cycle: Perennial Recommended Propagation Strategy: Division Country Or Region Of Origin: Europe Wildlife Value: Nectar attracts pollinators Edibility: Leaves and flowers can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in various dishes Dimensions: Height: 6 ft.
Tiny, narrowly ovate, dark green leaves have a strong. Tags: #evergreen #heat tolerant #drought tolerant #low growing #pink flowers #fragrant leaves #low maintenance #rabbit resistant #mounding #edging #spreading #summer flowers #deer resistant #groundcover #border front #container plant #edible #herb #buncombe county sun and shade garden It is an erect, bushy, woody-based perennial which typically grows 4-12 tall with upward branching stems. 'Archers Gold', 'Doone Valley', 'Silver Queen', 'Variegata' Silver colored leaves and lemon fragrance See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: Insects, Diseases, and Other Plant Problems: No significant problems. Use this plant as a ground cover, in rock gardens, in the front of the border, in an edible garden or in containers. Lemon thyme prefers well-drained sandy or rocky soil in full to partial sun. It is deer, rabbit, drought and heat tolerant. There are some 350 species of Thymus (Thyme) but only a few are used as ornamental plants, including T. The tubular pink flowers attract pollinators and the green leaves have a nice lemony scent and are edible. It is grown as a garden plant, as a culinary herb and is also used in herbal medicine. This evergreen subshrub mounds to 6-12 inches high and can spread to 1 foot wide. DNA testing has now determined it to be a distinct species. Genus name comes from the Greek word thymos and the species name means lemon-scented. It has had several name changes and at one time was thought to be a hybrid. Lemon thyme is an herb in the mint family possibly native to Europe.
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