Someone caring for their thyme plants - Ekaterina Vasileva-bagler/Getty Images It might surprise you to learn that there are around 350 different species of thyme that you could grow in your garden.

With an herbal, earthy scent and nectar-rich flowers, this ground cover is not only more interesting than grass, it's also lower-maintenance.

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Thyme is a tough Mediterranean herb that is delightfully low-maintenance and easy to harvest. During the summer months, thyme shrubs truly come into their own, producing lots of fresh stems and tiny ...

Here are five things to do in the garden: Thyme. Thyme is the most cold-hardy herb and is therefore suitable for the fall and winter garden. Even if it should die back in a hard freeze, it will regrow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's never enough time to plant everything you want to get a spring harvest, but there will be enough thyme if you start this ...