12/3/2023 0 Comments Wild thyme pottery![]() Several cultivars have been produced, of which 'Pink Chintz' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It may also be used to replace a bluegrass lawn to xeriscape low to moderate foot traffic areas due to its tolerance for low water and poor soils. serpyllum are used as border plants and ground cover around gardens and stone paths. Cultivation Ĭreeping and mounding variants of T. serpyllum contain thymol, carvacrol, limonene, paracymene, gamma-terpinene and beta-caryophyllene. Wild thyme is one of the plants on which both the common blue butterfly and large blue butterfly larvae feed and it is also attractive to bees. It is a plant of thin soils and can be found growing on sandy-soiled heaths, rocky outcrops, hills, banks, roadsides and riverside sand banks. Wild thyme is native to the Palearctic realm of Europe and Asia. The fruit is a dry, four-chambered schizocarp. Each flower has four projecting stamens and two fused carpels. The upper petal is notched and the lower one is larger than the two lateral petals and has three flattened lobes which form a lip. The usually pink or mauve flowers have a tube-like calyx and an irregular straight-tubed, hairy corolla. The plant sends up erect flowering shoots in summer. The leaves are in opposite pairs, nearly stalkless, with linear elliptic round-tipped blades and untoothed margins. It forms matlike plants that root from the nodes of the squarish, limp stems. Wild thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub with woody stems and a taproot. ![]() The hardy plant tolerates some pedestrian traffic and produces odors ranging from heavily herbal to lightly lemon, depending on the variety. The strongly scented flowers are either lilac, pink-purple, magenta, or a rare white, all 4–6 mm long and produced in clusters. The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm (1 in) tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm (4 in) long. Thymus serpyllum, known by the common names of Breckland thyme, Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme, or elfin thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to most of Europe and North Africa. Thymus subhirsutus Borbás & Heinr.Braun.Serves 4.Īdapted from Williams-Sonoma Soup of the Day, by Kate McMillan (Weldon Owen, 2011). Ladle the soup into warmed bowls and serve immediately. Return the soup to the pot, heat until just hot and stir in the lemon juice. Puree about 1 cup of the soup in a blender. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly. Cover and simmer until the barley is tender to the bite, 45 to 50 minutes. Add the reserved mushroom soaking liquid and bring to a boil, stirring to scrape up the browned bits from the pan bottom.Īdd the broth, barley, tomato paste, water and the chopped porcini to the pot. Cook until the cremini release their liquid and begin to brown, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the shallots and garlic and sauté until the shallots are wilted, 3 to 5 minutes. In a large, heavy pot over medium-high heat, warm the olive oil. Let stand for 15 minutes, then drain the porcini over a bowl, reserving the liquid, and finely chop. Remove from the heat and add the porcini. ![]() In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, bring the wine to a simmer. Rinse the porcini well to remove any dirt or grit. ![]()
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