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Tantalising Thymus Collection brings to you an invaluable herb, both in the kitchen and as a low-growing evergreen perennial for path edges, gravel gardens and containers. An ideal inclusion in a potager style garden, whereby fruits, flowers and vegetables are all grown alongside one another for a productive and aesthetically pleasing display. Plants in the Tantalising Thymus Collection bring proliferations of dainty flowers in varying shades of pink to your garden from March to August each year. Not only do these flowers provide valuable sustenance for visiting pollinators, both the blooms and the foliage will release their delicious, herby fragrance when they are brushed past or walked upon.Tantalising Thymus Collection brings you hardy and drought tolerant plants which prefer a site in well-drained soil which benefits from full sun. As an evergreen they offer excellent, ground-covering and weed suppressing qualities along side their resilient nature. Collection comprises: nitidus ‘Peter Davis’ H&S: 50cm; award-winning coccineus H: 10cm S: 50cm; and citriodorus ‘Lemon’ H&S: 50cm.
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Key Information
| Included In this Collection | Thymus citriodorus Lemon YP | Thymus nitidus Peter Davis YP | Thymus coccineus YP |
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| Latin Name | Thymus citriodorus ‘Lemon’ | ||
| Common Name | Thyme | ||
| Hardiness | H5 (-10 to -15°C) | ||
| Colour | Pink | ||
| Type | Perennial | ||
| Format | Young Plants | ||
| Position | Full-Sun | ||
| Foliage | Evergreen | ||
| Height in Maturity (m) | 0.50 | ||
| Spread in Maturity (m) | 0.50 | ||
| Soil Conditions | Chalk Loam Sand | ||
| Soil Acidity | Alkaline Neutral | ||
| Aspect | East-facing, South-facing, West-facing | ||
| Scented | Yes | ||
| Drought Tolerant | Yes | ||
| Good for pots | Yes | ||
| Good for Rockeries | Yes | ||
| Good for wildlife | Yes | ||
| Good for pollinators | Yes | ||
| Good for groundcover | Yes |
