Wetting their leaves while watering will reduce their fragrance. Ground covers are awesome for reducing maintenance in your garden. It isnt a fast grower, but it will spread evenly in a thick mat of attractive green. Here are the six best ground covers I know of based on a preference for an evergreen, or almost evergreen, that spreads on its own, adds color or texture, is easy to grow and is widely available. As its name implies, this evergreen herb makes a wonderful ground cover. Once established, plants will require little care. Growing your native garden from the ground up. Avoid overwatering!Īrchers Gold Thyme is very low maintenance, deer resistant and very drought tolerant. Contantly soggy or wet soil is problematic. Very easy to grow, Archers Gold Thyme requires a well-drained average to poor soil. It is also a cloroful accent in container gardeners.
In addition to division, mounding thymes may be propagated by stem cutting. In spring or fall, I slice small clumps, roughly 2 inches square, from an established plant and either pot them or plant them in another site. Light lavender flowers appear atop the foliage in summer. Honey bees love the flowers of this thyme plant!Īrchers Gold Thyme is excellent use as a groundcover or border along garden walkways, paths, and garden beds, or around rose beds. Cover more ground by dividing your thyme Both creeping and mounding thymes are most easily and reliably propagated by division. If you like fragrance, Thymus Citriodorus 'Archers Gold' has fragrant foliage.Īrcher's Gold Thyme can be useful in the landscape in mass plantings, in containers or planters, as a border or edger, as a groundcover, between stepping stones and pavers, in landscape beds or islands or in small groupings and also in rock or xeriscape gardens, theme gardens, cottage gardens, butterfly gardens, herb gardens or perennial gardens.Īrcher’s Gold Thyme, Thymus citriodorus ‘Archers Gold’, is a low-growing, mat-forming evergreen perennial plant that has bright golden variegated foliage with a nice lemon-scent. It attracts butterflies and visual attention and is resistant to deer, drought, insects, foot traffic and heat. The foliage is yellow, chartreuse and dark green in color. In the summer Archer's Gold Thyme produces violet and lavender flowers. It is a caterpillar food plant and has nectar.
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It prefers growing in a location that provides full sun and grows best when planted in sand or loam soil that is well drained. Thymus Archers Gold is known for attracting bees, beneficial insects, butterflies/moths and other pollinators. Great addition to many dishes where a lemony flavor is required. It matures to an average height of 1 inch to 1 foot and an average width of 6 inches to 1 foot, depending on climate and other environmental factors. Tiny, lemon scented, green and gold leaves with small purple flowers in summer make this thyme a really good ground cover and container plant. Thymus Citriodorus 'Archers Gold' is a moderate growing groundcover plant, herb and perennial plant that can be grown in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 5A through 8B.
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