How to Use Ground Covers or What Thyme is It?
©By Arlene Wright Correll We all know about Thyme (the kind we cook with) and there are not too many varieties of it. However, when it comes to ground covers and you are considering thyme you may well want to ask “What Thyme is it?” You may well be asking yourself why I want to know what thyme it is when you think of using thyme as a ground cover and the answers are basically simple. The first answer is space because one needs to know the different kinds of ground covering thyme will do different things in your space. Large thymes will cover up your paving stones or walkways in a short period of time and their stems will spread out onto the paving that will leave behind stubs where you would want the ground cover to be. If you are covering up only a small bit of space then you do not want that kind of ground covering thyme. The second answer is you need to know how thyme grows and thyme grows by spreading one set of its leaves to the next leaving a stem segment in between and this litt
©By Arlene Wright Correll We all know about Thyme (the kind we cook with) and there are not too many varieties of it. However, when it comes to ground covers and you are considering thyme you may well want to ask “What Thyme is it?” You may well be asking yourself why I want to know what thyme it is when you think of using thyme as a ground cover and the answers are basically simple. The first answer is space because one needs to know the different kinds of ground covering thyme will do different things in your space. Large thymes will cover up your paving stones or walkways in a short period of time and their stems will spread out onto the paving that will leave behind stubs where you would want the ground cover to be. If you are covering up only a small bit of space then you do not want that kind of ground covering thyme. The second answer is you need to know how thyme grows and thyme grows by spreading one set of its leaves to the next leaving a stem segment in between and this litt
