Thyme, Lavender
Thymus thracicus (mastichina)
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6-10 inches
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary, , Ornamental
Crush it. You'll smell a floral fragrance & what a grower! Looks good for months in pots. Pink flowers seldomly pop up on this narrow-leaved upright thyme. Use your imagination in pot roasts, mixed vegetables, pizza dough, rice, beans, and in or on bagels. Mark likes an occasional grilled lavender thyme steak. Brown meat on grill, then add handfuls of thyme & finish grilling. Great mustard enhancer.
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Thyme, Lemon Frost
Thymus x 'Lemon Frost'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun Only
Height: 1 inch
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses: Alpine Rockery, Culinary, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental
New in 2006
"Spread a layer" of this ground hugging lemon frost(ing) thyme over stepping stones for a fragrant, anti-weed rug. Its sweetly scented lemon foliage resembles a typical lemon thyme, only prostrate.
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Thyme, Nutmeg
Thymus sp. 'Nutmeg'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 inches
Common Uses: Walk About
Walk About

This is a fast, sprawling groundcover great for between stepping stones. Strong nutmeg, spicy aroma with a milder flavor, adds an unusual spark to pancakes, muffins and stir fry. Small purple flowers in spring are delicate necessities for a faery garden. Highly recommended.
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Thyme, Orange Balsam
Thymus vulgaris 'Orange Balsam'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6-8 inches
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Rare white flowers appear on this deliciously fragrant thyme. Similar uses as lemon thyme but with an added rich orange scent. Brown fish or meats on the grill, replace with fresh thyme branches, then put it back on grill, to "smoke.
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Thyme, Oregano Scented
Thymus pulegioides 'Oregano'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 5-8 inches
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Pink flowers on this broad-leaved thyme add an additional bonus to this culinary herb. I know we have 2 oregano thymes but this ones's flavor is milder so it leans toward the mild vegetables, viniagrettes or those of you reluctant to try thyme.
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Thyme, Pink Chintz
Thymus praecox 'Pink Chintz'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun Only to Full Sun
Height: 1 inch
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer to Late Spring
Common Uses: Alpine Rockery, Butterfly, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Walk About
New in 2006
Not quite as fuzy as "Woolly Thyme" but not as fussy, this hardworking goundcover puts on a dotted display of steady pink, beginning late spring and handles steady foot traffic.
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Thyme, Porlock
Thymus X 'Porlock'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun Only to Full Sun
Height: 5 inch
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Miniature/Faery Garden
Mini Landscapes
New fo 2006

'Porlock' resembles a fine needled lavender thyme-like foliage. But to the faeries, I would imagine, it mimics a miniature blue juniper in their world. Excellent in the railroad garden. Sharp "English" thyme flavor compatible with stews and steaks.
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Thyme, Provencal
Thymus vulgaris 'Provenca'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 8 - 12 inches
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, Medicinal, Ornamental
"Thanks for the Memories"

Don't just look at it! Smell it! Taste it! At our HerbFair both author Susan Belsinger and culinary instructor Lynn Nelson of "The Provincal Kitchen", absolutely fell in love with this variety. So will you. The flavor's strong, but balanced for any Italian or French cooking. Very nice blue-gray color too!
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Thyme, Red Mother-of-
Thymus pulegiodes
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun Only to Full Sun
Height: 1 inch
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Summer
Common Uses: Bees, Butterfly, Garden Railroads, Groundcover, Miniature/Faery Garden, Ornamental, Walk About
New in 2006
Like the mother of a toddler, it hugs (the ground) and moves briskly to fill an herb lawn, pathway or rock garden niche with glossy green leaves and dark pink, spring flowers within a couple of years. Mother of prostrate thymes, maybe, but red, definitely not!
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Thyme, Rose-scented
Thymus X 'Rose-Scented'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun Only to Full Sun
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, Ornamental
Rock Garden

I confess. Occasionally I found out about Mark's new finds when I edit the catalog. His description inspired me to hunt it down and you know it is distinctly "English Rose" scented with larger foliage for kitchen prep east. Forms a delicious blue-green, fast spreading carpet for in between stepping stones, under "Ebony Wonder Basil", or in rockeries... anywhere, it makes scents!
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Thyme, Spicy Orange
Thymus X 'Spicy Orange'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun Only to Full Sun
Height: 2 - 4 inches
Water: Normal- Dry
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental, , Tea, , Walk About
Walk About

A narrow leaved, blue-green creeping variety that is simply outstanding between stepping stones and two pieces of fish, butterfly chicken breasts, or in tea. You gotta try this one.
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Trifolium, Chef’s Dragon’s Blood
Trifolium repens 'Dragon's Blood'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 2 in. spreading
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, Groundcover
New for 2007

Chef's pay big bucks for these lime-green, pink, and dark-green, clover-leaved, salad enhancers that grow great in fertile soil as a groundcover. Bypass the chemical laden alternatives in garden centers and harvest your own organically grown herbs.
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Trifolium, Chef’s Purple
Trifolium repens 'Atropurpurea'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Sun-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 2 in. spreading
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, Groundcover
New for 2007

With a little luck, your kids will devour these maroon-red clover leaves in salads that look as appetizing as they are nutritious.
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Valerian \ Garden Heliotrope
Valerian officinalis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: P.Shade-P.Sun to Shade
Height: 3 - 5 feet
Water: Wet-Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Medicinal, , Ornamental, , Shade, , Tea
Considered by many horticulturists to be one of the finest hardy perennials for the shade. Fragrant 5" pinkish-white flower clusters in mid-summer perfume the early evening air. What irony then, that the medicinal roots should smell so bad. A cold tea made from dried 2 year old roots is used for colds, insomnia and nervous disorders.
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Verbena, Butterfly

Verbena bonariensis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 10a 10b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3-3 1/2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Cut Flower, , Ornamental
Pinkish purple blossoms sway on top 3 foot slender stems, attracting the eye and horn of many drivers. It's a natural cut flower which also lures every butterfly in the neighborhood. Warning: it's a self-sowing annual which happens to be O.K. for us. Use bark or other mulch where you don't want it to self-sow.
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Wand Flower Or Appleblossom Grass
Guara linderheimeri
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Sun-P.Sun
Height: 3-4 Feet
Water: Dry-Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Ornamental
This is Mark's favorite perennial. Why? Beautiful white apple blossom colored flowers on wispy stalks wave and flirt non-stop from June until freeze. Blooms are often mistaken for floating butterflies. Hardy to Zone 5.
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Wild Indigo \ Baptisia
Baptisia australis
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Ornamental
Edible Flowers

True blue, June flowers form on this, one of the longest lived perennials known. It even has delicious edible flowers (yes, we where surprised too!). Just strip flowers from stalks and pop into your mouth, green cap and all, for a fresh pea fix. After a short bloom, the unique foliage contrasts with neighbors all summer and then it turns purple after a freeze! Place it next to yellow conifers for excellent winter color. It's a nitrogen fixing legume to boot!
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