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Golden Lemon Thyme
Thymus x citriodorus ‘Aurea’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Groundcover
Height or Length at Maturity: 4-6″, flowers to 8″
Width at Maturity: 18-24″ or more
Spacing: 15″
Spacing: 15″
Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Spreading, Ground-hugging
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Lavender-Purple
Flower Type: Single, on spikes
Flower Size: Small, on spike
Flowering Period: Early to Mid Summer
Flowering Period: Early to Mid Summer
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Charteuse in Spring changing to Green with distinctive Golden edges
Fragrant Foliage: Yes, lemon scented
Berries: No
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun
Water Needs: Average
Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained to Dry when established – Well drained soil is a must!
Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Dry Soil, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
Adding an extremely fine and delicate texture and outstanding color to the landscape or garden, and excellent flavor for teas and many dishes, the Golden Lemon Thyme is a showy, spreading perennial displaying abundant spikes of lavender flowers that rise just above the colorful variegated foliage during summer. The fragrant leaves emerge chartreuse in spring maturing to green with a distinctive gold edge. Though excellent for ornamental use and color in the garden, this Thyme also has many culinary uses as a seasoning in cooking or to flavor tea. The leaves can be harvested any time of year.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in a ground-hugging carpet to 6 inches tall and spreading to 18 inches or more over time, Golden Lemon Thyme is ideal for use in the landscape or edible garden as a border along paths and walkways or massed as a groundcover or underplanting for shrubs, roses and small trees, such as Japanese maples. Also excellent as a soil cover and spiller plant in pots, planters and other containers. A fine addition to herb gardens, edible landscape gardens, rock gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).
Suggested Spacing: 15 inches for mass planting or solid borders
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Growing Preferences
When planted right and in the right spot, Golden Lemon Thyme is easy to grow. It grows best in light, lightly moist to dry well-drained soil and full sun. We suggest at least 6 hours or more of dir3ect sunlight per day. Will tolerate rainy periods but constantly soggy or wet soil is a killer. So make sure to plant in a well-drained site! Harvest leaves as needed in the morning after dew has dried or before flowering in midsummer.
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The plants arrived healthy. Doing well. Add interest to my garden.————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG



















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