{"id":150,"date":"2015-10-02T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2015-09-29T03:02:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:02:20","slug":"thyme-and-time-again-an-old-perennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/thyme-and-time-again-an-old-perennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Thyme and Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thyme has over 350 varieties and can make an interesting collection. Thymus is claimed to have volatile oils that have anti-ageing properties and good anti-oxidants to aid health. It retains its flavour after drying and can be stored successfully.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time for some Growing Tips on Thyme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Place container or grow in a sunny position to get stronger flavoured leaves.<\/li>\n<li>Use free draining soil or plant through a good layer of gravel<\/li>\n<li>Thyme looks good in a pot but avoid using a rich compost or you will get tasteless leaves and no flowers<\/li>\n<li>Trim the plant after Thyme has flowered to stop it becoming woody.<\/li>\n<li>Propagate from cuttings before flowering in spring or divide in spring.<\/li>\n<li>T. vulgaris, T. frgrantissimus and T. Serpyllium can be grown from fine seed which should be sown with sand on top of soil watered from the bottom.<\/li>\n<li>Bees are attracted to the pink flowering Pink Ripple.<\/li>\n<li>Cooking with Thyme and home grown Tomatoes is a special joy but add Thyme early so it has chance to release its flavours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Herb Garden Design Using Thyme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a carpet on a path on banking to display the herbs.<\/li>\n<li>For best ornamental effect mix upright varieties and creeping varieties and vary the leaf colour &#8216;Archers Gold&#8217;, &#8216;Coccineus major&#8217; and &#8216;Doone Valley&#8217; have a mix of magenta and purple flowers with varigation on leaf colour.<\/li>\n<li>A wheel shape or Octagon effect can be created as a garden feature<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;T. Vulgaris Silver Posie&#8217; is reliable in winter weather<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/homecooking\/1\/8\/o\/A\/1\/thyme1x.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thyme has over 350 varieties and can make an interesting collection. Thymus is claimed to have volatile oils that have anti-ageing properties and good anti-oxidants to aid health. It retains its flavour after drying and can be stored successfully. Time for some Growing Tips on Thyme Place container or grow in a sunny position to get stronger flavoured leaves. Use free draining soil or plant through a good layer of gravel Thyme looks good in a pot but avoid using&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/thyme-and-time-again-an-old-perennial\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,32],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-vegetables-herbs","category-design","tag-fragrance-and-scent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}