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Tabor Thyme Plants

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Thymus pulegioides

Pot Grown Herbs
  • Uses: stews, roasts, with cheese and in some desserts
  • Taste: aromatic
  • Harvest: Apr-Oct
  • Storage: use fresh; can be frozen and dried
  • Height: 20cm
  • Spacing: 30cm
  • Life: perennial
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Description

Tabor Thyme Plants

A Tabor thyme plant or two deserve a place in your herb collection for a number of reasons. It's a perennial, and evergreen, so it'll carry on giving you brilliant rich-green, glossy aromatic leaves and stems for many years. The flowers are worth a mention, too, being cute and dainty and a real magnet for pollinators, especially bees, which love the small, open, pale purple/pink flowers: a little like a miniature, low-growing and looser lavender plant. Browse all our UK grown herbs.

Great in your herb garden

Make sure you give thyme a sunny spot and really sharp drainage: it is a Mediterranean plant, native to rocky hillsides. A pot filled with 50:50 mix of compost and horticultural grit is ideal, or plant it in a rockery. There's no need to fertilise, as poor soil is preferable for thymes. Just keep picking the leaves to keep the plant compact, and give it a trim after flowering.

Thymes combine well with lavender, rosemary, oregano, and other thyme varieties with contrasting flower colours. A wide terracotta pot filled with prostrate rosemary and a couple of thymes makes a lovely combination for a table decoration.

You can harvest leaves and stems throughout the growing season, from around April to October. Chopped and combined with lemon zest and olive oil, the leaves make a great marinade for halloumi (before frying) or feta cheese. Or add sprigs to stews and roasts for that gorgeous Mediterranean aromatic scent. If you're feeling adventurous, a little thyme is also great in cakes, cookies and summer fools, where its bright yet earthy notes bring a wonderful contrast to sweetness.

Features

  • Uses: stews, roasts, with cheese and in cakes and biscuits
  • Taste: aromatic, earthy
  • Harvest: April-October
  • Storage: use fresh; the leaves can also be frozen and dried
  • Height: 20cm
  • Spacing: 30cm
  • Life: perennial

Did you know?

The ancient Greeks regarded thyme as the bringer of courage; they bathed in it and burnt it to benefit from its bravery-bringing qualities. In the Middle Ages, knights were given bunches of thyme, possibly for the same reason, or possibly because Thyme has anti-bacterial properties, which is always handy.

Cultivation Instructions

Keep well watered to establish. Trim regularly to maintain shape. Trim all over after flowering.

What to expect

Bareroot plants

Bareroot?

Bareroot plants have no soil around the roots. They are light, easy to carry and plant.

Perfect for Winter

The ground tends to be wet in winter, ideal for planting bareroot plants.

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You pay less for the same size bareroot plants, compared to potted.

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