silver thyme? maybe it's time to realize you have enough? :oD

There are approximately 400 varieties of thymes, so you can go on and on.

I also have the coconut thyme and the lavender thyme.

Heathen1, I am still looking for the 12 step program for gardeners. Meanwhile I still have places I can plant so I am going to look up the 3 mentioned so far. But I promis not to get anywhere near 400. Doesn't anyone else like to see how many varieties of a species they can get?

Don't get me started!! I have a passion for thymes...enough that I have a plaque in my garden that says "there's never enough thyme"

Orange balsam thyme
gold edged thyme
tuffet thyme
linear lilac thyme
Pennsylvania Dutch Tea thyme
gold oregano thyme
oregano thyme
nutmeg thyme
alba thyme
French thyme
camphor thyme
lavender thyme
elfin thyme
caraway thyme
Mother-of-thyme
lemon thyme
Archer's thyme
Silver thyme "argent"
Silver thyme "hi ho silver"

My Wedgewood thyme croaked this winter.

that may be all of my thymes...maybe

The gold oregano thyme is a nice one to add as the leaves are light green in color and it is a nice contrast to the other creeping thymes.

See? I DID mention Silver Thyme! :oD

Nutmeg thyme is pretty cool  it actually does taste like nutmeg.

Here are a few other choices.

I've got four or five varieties growing, and sometimes have trouble remembering which is which!

Have any of you planted your thymes in patterns  a strip of creeping thyme surrounding a square of variegated lemon thyme, etc.?

Hmmm, granite and I may have to attend the same meetings for thyme addiction...love 'em all. Didn't see rose petal thyme mentioned. It smells more like rose scented geranium and is a prolific grower! There's Elizabethan thyme. I don't have the gold oregano thyme, just the oregano thyme...here I go in search of another plant!

Okay I guess I have a few thymes to look up. So far I don't even have my thymes in the same area. I have some in my rock garden and that is the main place I would like more for right now. But I just put in a bed for culinary herbs near the stairs down from my kitchen deck, that area has reg thyme and lemon thyme and then a flagstone path in front of that has creeping thyme, red thyme, wooly thyme and one little elfin thyme between the stones. Oh and I have a bench with creeping thyme around it in the front yard. So in short I guess they are just scattered.

Oh Granite- man sakes- you have the ultimate thyme list !! I would LOVE to try some of those on your list- do you have a seed resource or did you buy plants ? I can only find a limited number of varieties in my area but I'll send away for seeds or plants !!!

I just found a silver edged thyme today. Is this the same as silver thyme do you think? It looks somewhat varigated silver and green.

I can't do without my caraway thyme!
Good luck
Maryanne in WMass

Both Caraway Thyme & Coconut Thyme are 2 unusual favorites of mine. No culinary virtues - just interesting to have in the garden for pinching & sniffing.

Did anyone mention the "pink chintz" thyme? Very pretty as is the "Annie Hall" thyme.

I love all the thymes, and so I have done some research on them. Just a word of caution about thymes Thumus. They are a member of the mint family Lamiaceae. And like mint, they are notorious cross pollinators, and new hybrids pop up every year for this reason. So you might want to give them a little space from one another when planting.

I would advise against starting thymes from seed...it is unpredictable what type of thyme would actually grow.

There are a variety of silver thymes....some have very narrow white margins, others are more obvious. The "hi ho" I have has reddish stems, the "argent" is much paler.

I recommend doing a search for nurseries that specialize in herbs in your area, they will give you much more ACCURATE varieties as well as more varieties than the chain stores.

I actually bought the silver thyme at a nursery and realized that when i got it home it didn't have a tag, and I can't remember which it was. I also bought a really beautiful thyme yesterday called Highland Cream very cool looking creeping cream, gold and green leaves. Okay I think that is enough for now. I need to plant all the stuff I've bought before I buy anything else.

Thyme, Doone Valley
Thyme, Dot Wells
Thyme, EUC
Thyme, French
Thyme, Golden lemon
Thyme, Hi Ho Silver
Thyme, Lemon
Thyme Lemon Frost
Thyme, minus
Thyme, Orange
Thyme, Spanish

This is a list from Pete's Herbs near Charleston South Carolina. Has really nice plants. Minus is my new favorite -- it is the lowest growing spreading thyme I have ever seen. I have about a dozen different thymes all growing in pots (each in a seperate pot ) on my deck. I am on the line between zone 7b and 8a about 100 miles inland from Charleston. I recently purchased a plant called Cat Thyme, Teucrium marum -- grey cloor with pretty pink flowers -- "tag says more addictive than catnip!" I have found thymes to be hardy here and winter outside without problems. Prior to retirement I was in Ohio (Zone 5) and most but not all thymes surrived winter there too -- both in beds and pots -- but winter was hard on the clay pots.

Here is a link that might be useful: Pete's Herbs

I had the Cat Thyme for a few years. It did bloom very prettily, but it never did spread or grow and finally last year it stopped returning. I wish you better luck with it, because it certainly did have large and pretty blooms on it (compared to the usual size of thyme blooms).

I'm on a search now for the gold-edged thymes. In my area this year, everyone is offering it in a big bowl herb garden, but not as an individual plant. I'm not in a rush, so if I don't find it this year there is always next year!

Actually cat thyme is not a thyme, but a germander. However, both teucrium germander and thymus thymes are in the Labiatae/Lamiaceae family.

I just bought four different thymes the other day, the neatest one being the lime thyme--really smells like lime, and has a good strong fragrance!--but now after reading this thread I want to go back and get some others I saw!