With bell-shaped purple blooms, creeping bellflower is pretty, but it chokes out wanted plants — and it’s all over the place in Minnesota.

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Create a living carpet in your front lawn by planting red thyme, a popular ground cover that requires minimal care and rewards with stunning purple flowers.

Creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum 'Elfin'), also sometimes called wild thyme, is a widely promoted lawn replacement herb. Pollinators love the blooms and you can walk (lightly) on it. To successfully ...

My plant identification app (thank goodness for apps) identified the lawn as creeping thyme. And since I spotted it, I have dreams of having my own creeping thyme lawn. Why Creeping Thyme?

Plant creeping thyme in spring—this will give it time to become established before the heat of summer brings stressful growing conditions for new plants. Install your plugs 12 inches apart using ...

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"Creeping thyme also contributes organic matter to the soil through leaf litter and root turnover, improving soil structure and fertility, benefiting lavender," says Betz.