U.S Janet B wrote:
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> I usually have them all over my Greek oregano too. I've harvested the
> oregano twice so there are few flowers. I did buy a new plant this
> year -- Italian oregano, and I like the taste and aroma of it better
> than the Greek. It also has a lower growing habit than the Greek.
> Janet US

many plants in the mint family are hugely attractive
to bees. pennyroyal is one of them. any of the thymes
are always swarmed here when they're out. we grow all
sorts of thyme for the ground cover and for the flowers
we don't actually use it in cooking but we've got
several hundred square feet of it.

because of the low growing habit of many of these
plants they do require some weeding but at least they
are nice to smell while doing that.

end of season cleanup/trimming is easy, just use the
lawnmower when it is very clean and raised up as high as
it will go.

for the very low growing thyme we have i don't have to
do any cleanup at all for that as it is ground hugging.
the bright purple flowers are a nice contrast the more
pale flowers of the higher growing thyme.

it seems many of them flower more than once too.


songbird