Thyme
Tomillo · Thym
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- compact
- Roots
- shallow
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- perennial
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
Jobs in the bed
- Covers the soilShades the soil, keeps moisture in and holds weeds back. Best on the edge of the bed.
- Brings pollinatorsFlowers that feed bees and butterflies. Useful next to crops that need pollinating.
- Feeds beneficial insectsSmall open flowers feed hoverflies, parasitic wasps and lacewings, which eat aphids and caterpillars.
Rotation
Do not return Lamiaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✿ Benefit
Low ground cover; flowers feed bees & beneficial insects
✓ Place near
✗ Keep apart
None listed.