Hi there! I live in North London (moved here recently!) and am looking for a place (preferably online as I don't have a car) to buy wooly thyme. I searched on google but didn't see anything, and so thought that maybe it was called something different here?

Thank you very much!! I am excited to be here and learning about gardening in the UK. I lived most of my life in northern california where anything and everything grew all year long....so I have lots to learn!

Best,
Tracy

In message , agileflower
writes

Hi there! I live in North London (moved here recently!) and am looking
for a place (preferably online as I don't have a car) to buy wooly
thyme. I searched on google but didn't see anything, and so thought
that maybe it was called something different here?

Thank you very much!! I am excited to be here and learning about
gardening in the UK. I lived most of my life in northern california
where anything and everything grew all year long....so I have lots to
learn!

Jekka McVicar does a great mail order service. I haven't bought
anything from her this year, as our adopted year-old labrador is a bit
of a digger at present and I would rather she dug out the old stuff
until she is trained than put in new plants and lose them. Less
frustration. She's coming along fine, so next year I shall start again
with my herb garden.

www.jekkasherbfarm.com


If you are near Bounds Green, the Sunshine Garden Centre sells lots of
different varieties of thyme. They are situated at what was the old
swimming pool in Durnsford Road and I have found their herbs to be
generally better than elsewhere locally. I have no idea why. It's easy
to get to by public transport.

I hope you like living here. It's certainly different to California!

HTH


--
June Hughes

Do you think the plant is Phlomis. Flowers may be yellow or mauve formed in whorls arond the stem throughout its length. Let me know. Best wishes, Gerald.

It doesn't seem familiar, but when I had it in my yard I didn't live there long enough to see it flower.

It was planted to be a traffic-tolerable groundcover...smelled nice...but I didn't see it flower. If you have recommendations for traffic-tolerable groundcovers I'm all ears

I found the name of it: it's thymus pseudolanuginosus or thymus languinosis! Someone had written that there is a non hybridized form of 'creeping wooly thyme' that tolerates foot traffic much better and this would be ideal for me I think!