I have English, Nutmeg, Orange Balsam, Spicy Orange, and Lemon. The Lemon and Nutmeg are my favorites, in that order. The Nutmeg needs more water than the others, but I like it so much, I don't mind the extra work.

I like them all as ground covers, but they are not all hardy here.
The orange did not make it through our winter for me.
So I stick to English and Creeping Thyme.

All I have is what was labeled Winter Thyme.
I had no idea there were so many flavors.
Do those grow from seeds or do I need to buy plants?

Thyme is very good for your respiratory system especially your lungs.

Caroline, worth it to replace them they smell so good.

Margaret, I bought mine as plants. Can't remember the vendor and he isn't popping up on a Google search. There are at least a couple dozen kinds of thyme. It is fun to experiment with them.

Orange thyme makes a great walkway edger. I love all of them! The tiny, mat-forming types are actually able to keep out the bermuda grass near my walkway. Wish I had a seed source for all the various types. Maybe I'll start a thread for that?

Good idea, Cindi.

I have had nothing but problems getting thymes to grow for me. The photo on the left is from 2014 with about 5-6 different varieities of thyme planted below a scratch-n-dent Japanese maple. None of them lasted lthrived - wooley, pink chintz, EB Someone, white, I forget what else. They tend to die out in the middle with sparse new growth along the edges. In this particular bed, I've given up on thyme and replanted with rupturewort, which filled in very nicely in one season from three 4" pots (picture on right). I'm hoping this will be hardier, and the look is similar. I call this part of my herbs the Buddha circle even though I have yet to find a Buddha statue that I like...still searching.

Nice, Deb. Love the shape and coloring of those rocks.

I have several different types and a favorite is very hard to choose


there are three low type in this dish
pink chintz
wine and roses
and Highland cream


pink chintz puts on a very nice spring display of tiny flowers.

I prefer French thyme (thyme vulgaris) for cooking

and woolly thyme is great in a mini dish garden, it often cascades over the edge and just looks good.

Pretty, Cinda.

Lemon thyme was always my fav.
I used it on a garden walkway at my home on Long Island, N.Y.
Mmmmm, it smelled great.
There are many varieties. They can be hard to find. But, unless you have someone you deal with, like I once did, you may have to surrender to the internet.

I got three at the box store, ordered the others online. The lemon seems to be the easiest to propagate from cuttings.

Something like 28 varieties.
Lemon frost thyme sounds nice.

The box stores probably won't carry some of the unknown - like pink lemonade. Then again, they could surprise you.
I would love to find a place, other than online.
I used to have my favorite places to go for plants, but we have had some major changes and I haven't gotten into landscaping and gardening as much.

Ok, I surrender! Where online can I find cool varieties like Pink Lemonade?

https://www.mountainvalleygrow...

full list of theirs
https://www.mountainvalleygrow...

I just discovered that site a couple of days ago... I think I am seriously in trouble now!

Fun stuff! Can't wait to start growing again! Apparently, citrus is in.

Yep, it is.