Continuing My Efforts

Since April 24th is normally the last day of the season where we might possible have a late freeze, I decided this is the weekend to continue my idea of having a thyme lawn. 

So far, the first plant, a wooly thyme, seems to be hanging in there.  Always a good thing with my iffy green thumb.

On Friday I went by a couple of locally owned nurseries to check out their supplies of thyme.  At the first one I went to, no luck.  I couldn't find any thyme in their herb section.  I asked one young man who worked there.  He did not know and said he would find out.  Thirty seconds later, he had obviously not asked and was back to what he'd been doing before I asked - straightening up the tomato plant display.  I then located another employee and asked her.  She informed me they had just planted the seeds for their thyme plants and I should come back in a week or so.  Umm, no thanks.

I went to another nursery right down the street.  They had some larger time plants, but the tag said they would grow slightly higher than I wanted them to.  Their smaller plants were the same variety as the larger plants, except for one tiny pot containg an Elfin variety that looked rather sad.  No thanks, again.

I finally went to the nursery I had gone to a couple of weeks ago.  They had a MUCH better variety including 2 types that only get about 2-3 inches tall.  I got 2 pots of each variety and came home.  I need to think about exactly where I want to put them and then it's transplant time.

It should not be such a hassle to find a common herb like thyme.

On the other hand, it's kinda fun to walk up to a complete stranger (at a nursery) and ask them, "Do you have thyme?"  It has such a nice existential/metaphysical feel to it.

Papillon