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LA:Thymus praecox
EN: Creeping Thyme
DE: Frühblühende Thymian
HU: Korai kakukkfű
A very pleasantly scented little plant. Native to western, central and southern Europe. Mainly in mountainous areas, chalky grounds.
The leaves also contain oil glads with essential oils that smell so good.
The plant likes warm, sunny places, drought tolerant.
Typical are the scarce long hairs on the sides of the leaves.
In a “punny” celebration of Pride Day that was tied to the upcoming Daylight Saving Time, employees in Marketing and Communications planted thyme seeds in a fun project.
Thymus serpyllum, known by the common names of Breckland thyme,[2] wild thyme or creeping thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to most of Europe and North Africa. It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm (1 in) tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm (4 in) long. The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. The strongly scented flowers are either lilac, pink-purple, magenta, or a rare white, all 4–6 mm long and produced in clusters. The hardy plant tolerates some pedestrian traffic and produces odors ranging from heavily herbal to lightly lemon, depending on the variety.
If she hadn't have said it I wouldn't have noticed it - this little hillock is an ant's nest, and nests like this are common on the Burren where they are usually covered in wild thyme, which is an alpine plant. Alpine plants are another weird aspect of this landscape. Here Ruth is testing sampling the herb.
You'll probably have noticed the extraordinary stones, which look almost like the sort you find in a play or the set of a film, made out of foam or whatever else. They are probably the most beautiful wall stones I've ever seen, due to their peculiar history.
By the way, the writing on her shirt reads "National Parks and Wildlife Service".
A gift from my intern's mother, who is an avid gardener. She is from Jamaica and calls this plant "Trinidadian Thyme", and it is common in the Caribbean. Smells and tastes just like regular thyme, but with much larger leaves.
Day 17: Thyme
Inspiration was short for yesterday's image. I ended up passing a parking lot with some really nice leading lines in the covered area and decided to roll with it.
Thought to have brought courage, thyme was once given as gifts to warriors before battle and burnt as incense in temples in the Middle Ages. It was also thought to aid sleep and ward off nightmares. In the same time period, thyme used as incense was burned at funerals and placed on coffins because it was thought to aid passage into the afterlife. The Romans used thyme to purify their rooms and in cooking—probably the most common use of it today alongside its medicinal uses. The essential oil of common thyme is 20-54% thymol, an active antimicrobial ingredient in Listerine and other mouthwashes. It was also used to medicate bandages before modern medicine.
[Again, sourced from Wikipedia's entry on thyme]
There are small splashes of colour in our new garden but I cannot transplant any of my plants until after open garden day at Pikers Lane on July 14th - so I must be patient a while longer!