Comments on: Chapel Street Garden

By: meg

meg — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:42:57 +0000

Hello Wiseacre
Nice landscaping images . Everything blends in your garden.
I just finished laying flagstones on my 4′ side yard(raised by retaining walls) next to the driveway.
We live in Winnipeg,Canada. I wanted to plant Thymus Pseudolanuginosus(I read your blog- me too I like to go with this name,a tongue twister for my 4 yera old daughter.). Being in Winnipeg I’ve very limited options to grow moss inbetween my flag stones.
Woolly thyme (zone2) -when is the best time to plant?Can I do it now in September or wait till the spring?I’ve flagstone area about 350 sq.ft. Is it enough to buy about 150sq.ft? any rule of thumb/
Which is the best way to buy it economical?Do you know anybody who can ship them?
Thanks in advance?
Do you have any suggestions on other moss that will survive in zone 3a.I went to BC this summer and fell in love with Corscican mint. Will it survive in zone 3?

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:32:24 +0000

Hi! You did a lovely job on that garden, and I am hoping that you might have an answer for me that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else.

I am very new to gardening and tend to make decisions that sometimes work wonderfully and sometimes, unfortunately, do not. Last year my husband and I created a great courtyard space at our vacation home, which included a random flagstone patio under a tall, mature ponderosa pine. I planted the cracks in the flagstone with several varieties of low creeping thyme, and around the base of the tree I planted speedwell thyme.

The plantings did great throughout last summer and spread very nicely, but while the various thymes in the cracks are coming back green this spring, the speedwell looks like one of those sisal welcome mats – completely brown and dead.

Does speedwell take longer to start its spring growth – or is it likely to be a lost cause? The garden is in the mountains of Colorado, but is in the ‘banana belt’ of the Arkansas river valley – in the town of Salida. The winter wasn’t too harsh this year, and daytime temps are mainly in the 40s-50s now, with jumps into the 70s.

I’d really appreciate any insight you might have – I haven’t been able to find anything about speedwell’s return in the spring online, and I am very much hoping to save it.

Thanks!
Margaret

By: Garden Lily

Garden Lily — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:32:59 +0000

I am thinking of woolly thyme as a filler for a flagstone pathway I am planning. But my experience with other thymes is that the flowers attract bees in droves. Usually, that is exactly what I’m hoping for, but not for a pathway… Does woolly thyme attract many bees when in flower?

Garden Lily,
Bees do visit but it’s not like they swarm over the blooms. I wouldn’t be concerned about bees if I used them in a path. I know of a couple spots by paths and sitting areas planted with Thyme and bees don’t really come to mind when I think of those plantings.