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Highland Cream Creeping Thyme

Highland Cream Creeping Thyme

THYMUS praecox 'Highland Cream'

  • Full Sun (6+ hrs)
  • High drought resistance
  • Attracts bees
  • Ships as a 4"plant
  • Mature spread is 6"-12"
  • Ground cover and Compact
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Highland Cream Creeping Thyme (Thymus praecox 'Highland Cream') is a delightful, low-growing ornamental herb groundcover producing a dense, flat carpet of tiny, attractively variegated leaves in soft green with distinctive creamy-white margins — a refined, two-toned foliage combination that creates a luminous, tapestry-like groundcover effect and provides year-round ornamental interest that makes this exceptional thyme cultivar as visually beautiful as it is aromatically rewarding. In late spring, the variegated foliage carpet is topped with a profusion of delicate small flowers that attract an abundance of bees and beneficial insects, adding seasonal floral color to the outstanding year-round foliage display.

Grown from certified organic heritage stock, each plant arrives with a Professional Grade root system — dense, fibrous, and fully established for vigorous spreading growth. Highland Cream thrives in full sun with excellent drainage and develops strong drought tolerance once established, excelling in rock gardens, pathway edging, stepping stone gaps, dry slopes, and low-maintenance organic landscape applications where a beautiful, fragrant, low-growing groundcover is needed. Its variegated creamy-white and green foliage, aromatic properties, and foot-traffic tolerance make it an outstanding choice for fragrant garden paths, mixed herb gardens, container edging, and low-maintenance organic groundcover plantings throughout every season.

  • Beautiful Creamy-White Variegated Foliage — Soft green leaves with attractive creamy-white margins create a refined, two-toned variegated foliage carpet that delivers luminous year-round ornamental interest far beyond the seasonal bloom period.
  • Foot-Traffic Tolerant Groundcover — Dense, mat-forming habit tolerates light foot traffic beautifully, releasing an intoxicating thyme fragrance when stepped on — making it the perfect fragrant groundcover for pathway edging and stepping stone gaps.
  • Exceptional Drought Tolerance — Develops strong drought resistance once established, thriving with minimal supplemental irrigation in rock gardens, dry slopes, and water-wise organic landscape applications throughout the growing season.
  • Premier Bee & Pollinator Herb — Seasonal flowers are exceptional attractors for honeybees, bumblebees, native bees, and beneficial insects, making Highland Cream Creeping Thyme a productive pollinator herb groundcover with outstanding ecological value.
  • Culinary & Aromatic Value — Aromatic variegated foliage delivers the classic thyme fragrance and mild culinary flavor prized for herb gardens, fresh harvests, dried culinary use, and fragrant pathway plantings throughout the entire growing season.

These 4" healthy live plants thrive in full sun (6–8 hours daily) with excellent drainage — plant in well-drained to sandy or gravelly soil and water moderately until established, after which minimal supplemental irrigation is needed. Hardy in USDA zones 4–9, growing 2–4" tall with a spread of 12–18". Small flowers bloom in late spring to early summer (May–June); trim lightly after bloom to maintain a tidy, compact variegated mat and encourage vigorous new foliage growth throughout the season.

We use expedited shipping policies to protect plant health and minimize plant stress in transit.  All plants are in transit for only 1-3 days. (This does not guarantee 3-day delivery as orders are not always packed and sent out on the day of your order.) We send out deliveries on a weekly schedule to ensure quick transit times, so your order may not be packaged and shipped until later in the week. For instance, we may hold shipments to avoid weekend delays that keep plants in transit for longer.

All packaging includes eco-friendly material and our shipping methods are tested regularly to ensure plants arrive healthy upon arrival.

Additionally, any delays or damages in shipping are covered by our Healthy Plant Guarantee.

If you're plants arrived damaged, we will happily replace them for free!

Please contact us, send a picture, and detail any damage, so that we can continue to improve our shipping process and make sure you receive the healthy plants you paid for.

Mature Height is Up to 6"

Mature Spread is 6"-12"

Watering: Let dry

Blooms in:

  • Summer

Special Features:

  • Ground cover