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Like other thick, low-growing plants, many herbs such as thyme make a good groundcover- with the added benefit of smelling delicious when you walk on or around them.

Do you have stepping stones with no filler in between? A patio with large cracks to fill? Bare spots in your garden? A rock wall or ornamental pot with nothing to spill over its edges? Below are listed some of our cutest low growing and trailing plants. Some sport tiny, but showy flowers. Some are walk-on-me plants. Some even have culinary value!

Groundcover Herbs: Wooly Thyme, Corsican Mint, Minus Thyme, Sweet Woodruff, Roman Chamomile, Pink Chintz Thyme, Prostrate Rosemary, Red Creeping Thyme, White Creeping Thyme, Pennyroyal

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Thyme adds a bit of whimsy when planted between stepping stones or cracks in sidewalks and patios. Varieties of thyme such as Pink Chintz, Minus, White Creeping, Red Creeping, Wooly, and Mother of Thyme work perfectly for they are low growing, exquisitely delicate but they won't crush if stepped on occasionally. They are highly durable and won't wilt in the heat of summer nor do they need to be watered everyday.

Thyme makes a lovely sunny groundcover, in a regular bed or in a rock garden. It also works well between stepping stones. You can use any of the lower-growing or creeping varieties, such as Lime thyme, Doone Valley thyme, Minus thyme, Bressingham thyme, or Mother of thyme. Some varieties, such as Wooly thyme, are more delicate and slower-growing, and therefore work better between stones and not as a general groundcover.

This whimsical fairy home's lawn is groundcover thyme