German Winter Thyme
Well-known as the most cold-hardy of the culinary thymes. It is also the only one I know of that is upright-growing, which means that the branches stay up out of the mud. I find it the easiest to pick, easiest to bundle and dry, easiest to strip off the leaves for cooking. This thyme has a narrow, almost needle-like leaf, with a gray-green color, making it not only cold-hardy, but drought-tolerant as well. In my experience it also has deeper roots, which helps with drought and with erosion control on slopes and bed edges. Like any thyme, it should be sheared back to about half its height every year to keep it bushy. Not as high a yeld of leaves as the thymes with wider leaves, but easiier to harvest. Unlike other thymes, it will not invade adjacent beds, staying in an upright clump. Evergreen. 500 seeds