The flowers bloom almost year round and are a pollinator favorite. The silvery-white leaves and lavender-blue flowers of the bush germander make it a popular and sturdy choice for dificult situations where heat and drought make gardening dificult. This compact selection of bush germander only gets to about 5 ft. Teucrium fruticans - Cal Flora Form (bush germander) Good for sunny dry areas where they combine nicely with other drought tolerant plants such as lavenders, rock roses, Phlomis, etc. Upright silver foliaged evergreen shrub with wonderful azure blue flowers most of the summer. Teucrium fruticans 'Azureum' (bush germander) Requires decent drainage with moderate to occasional summer water once established. Narrow gray-green foiage is topped with dense clusters of rosy-lavender flowers, nearly the entire growing season. Teucrium cossonii (majoricum) (Majorcan teucrium)Ī beautiful little shrublet that hugs the ground to 2 ft. Dark green foliage topped with light magenta flowers in spikes. Tough, neat looking evergreen shrublet-good for hot dry places. These rise above the soft mounds of foliage 18 inches to 2 ft. Many small, urn-shaped flowers with tiny fringed petals open green and age to pink, line the slender flower stalks. Good for erosion control.įringe cups is a sweet native perennial for the shade garden. Beautiful when combined with ceanothus, Douglas iris and other plants from our coastal areas. Dune tansy has a strong scent of camphor and is valued for its medicinal uses. Reducing irrigation can temper this tansy's somewhat aggressive nature. Tolerant of clay soils and excessive moisture but will thrive with only occasional water once established. Yellow, button-shaped flowers form small clusters atop stalks up to 2 ft. Native to sand dunes from the Bay Area north, this shrubby evergreen groundcover spreads quickly to create drifts of soft fern-like foliage. For best results, consider use of our Plant Propagation Kit.Tanacetum bipinnatum (camphoratum) (dune tansy) Seeds of all Thymus varieties are quite small. Similarly, during or shortly after rain, or other disturbances, this beautiful thyme releases its much loved fragrance. Whilst you impatiently sift through the mail, you are all of a sudden reminded you are at home sweet home now, thanks to the sweet thyme fragrance that has by now filled the air, thanks to stepping on this plant only a moment ago. After a day in the office, you get home, step into the garden for a moment to reach for the mailbox. Provided Creeping Thyme Purple Rain is in an aspect where it receives at least moderate levels of direct sun, this variety will often flower much of the year. ![]() The fragrant foliage is edible and may be used in cooking, however this variety is most commonly grown as a colourful groundcover in cottage gardens, rockeries, many different modern garden settings as well as in pots. Once established Creeping Thyme Purple Rain is relatively tough wearing, and whilst some claim it to be a turf-replacement, we feel this is taking things a little far! It is however quite a robust plant which can be planted between pavers, or around a vegetable garden where it may be stepped on from time-to-time, however we do not suggest the MCG is about to be resurfaced with this or any other flowering herb, any time soon!Ĭreeping Thyme Purple Rain is a fast growing perennial groundcover. This should be considered when comparing with inferior varieties. In contrast, the Creeping Thyme varieties selected by The Climbing Fig have been specifically selected as superior hybrid cultivars of the common species varieties (wild thyme), resulting in far more robust plants, superior canopy resilience and most importantly more intense and consistent flowering.Ĭreeping Thyme Purple Rain performs better during weather extremes and is a much more resilient garden performer due to the true-evergreen traits of this variety. Most Creeping Thyme varieties available (sold as) seeds are typically wild species, which generally produce a plant which at first is quite encouraging, however, before long, plants of the wild Creeping Thyme varieties generally get quite sparse (after the first Summer), become woody with limited regenerative tendencies and often much reduced flowering intensity. Creeping Thyme itself encompasses a collection of wild species of Thyme from the Thymus genus, a relatively dense prostrate (low-growing groundcover) with tiny pink or purple flowers that generally first emerge with the onset of Spring. Creeping Thyme is not just, creeping thyme.
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