#BROAD LEAF THYME FULL#

Do not cover as they need light to germinate. Sow seed on the surface of lightly firmed, moist seed compost in pots or trays. Sowing: Sow in spring or autumn at around 13☌ (55☏) The highly fragrant flowers are highly attractive to bees and other beneficial pollinating insects. It is a hardy perennial that flowers in July and August with elongated whorled flower spikes.

#BROAD LEAF THYME FULL#

Thyme prefers well drained dry soil and full sun. For medicinal purposes, thyme is used as an antibacterial herb and is good for coughs. It is also good in herb breads, butters and tomato based sauces. It can be used as regular thyme, a useful ingredient in bouquet garni, stuffing’s and sauces, and can be added at the beginning of cooking to almost any meat dish. The leaves are softer and can be used whole or chopped, snipped into little bits they just melt into the dish. The aromatic leaves have a stronger flavour and are much easier to use than narrow leaved varieties. It is an excellent culinary thyme and is considered to be the thyme of choice by many chefs and home cooks alike. It can be useful as a groundcover, perfect for planting in between paving stones or cascading off the edge of a raised bed, it makes a lovely, summer flowering scented edge for a sunny herb garden.īroad-leaved thyme has large, fleshy dark green, round leaves. This variety is very ornamental, it is rather similar to Thymus serpyllum but is larger, the leaves are wider and all the stems form flowering shoots. Growing to around 25cm (12in) tall by 25cm (10in) wide, it is suitable for cultivation in any well-drained alkaline or neutral soil in full sun.

It has a history going back to the Middle ages.īroad-leaved thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen sub-shrub with strongly aromatic leaves, and lilac pink flowers in early summer. Thymus pulegoides, commonly known as Broadleaf thyme is a very large leafed species regarded by many as the ultimate culinary thyme.

Broad leaf thyme