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The gardeners amongst you might be interested in today's American TSV.
'Thyme of the season. Transform your landscaping with Roberta's eight-piece Tread on Me English Creeping Thyme collection--creating blankets of color in one of the most versatile, carefree, and easy-to-maintain groundcovers around!
Roberta's experts traveled to botanical gardens, arboretums, and breeders' gardens throughout the U.K. to find four of the best varieties of English thyme.
These special varieties--Cotswolds Carpet Lavender, Mums Creeping Pink, Lucky Charmin Carmine, and Shepherds Snowdrift White--offer amazing color impact and diversity; fast growth and spread; incredible durability, and the greatest volume of flowers. Now, after two years of cultivating them, Roberta's has sufficient numbers to make this special offer for QVC customers!

The fragrant and evergreen foliage of this groundcover is as hardy as it is gorgeous. These brilliant beds can be walked on--even trampled--and still look their very best. They're an ideal, eye-catching addition to pathways, walkways, borders, potted plants--or can be used as maintenance-free lawn substitutes!

These stunning plants are offered at a stunning value. Spring into action and make an invaluable addition to your garden with these beautiful varieties of English thyme--you'll wonder how you lived without them!

From Roberta's.'
 
That's what I thought. Even when it's gardening they get better than we do. The planning of it as well - brought over to the US and after 2 years there now ready to sell.
 
Roberta's 8-pc. Tread on Me English Creeping Thyme Collection
Retail Value: $62.00
QVC Price: $33.00
Today's Special Value Price:
$27.28
Good until February 6, 2013 11:59 p.m. ET
Shipping & Handling: $6.97
 
I quite fancy a chamomlie lawn (never need mowing), we're having our back garden relaid this year and the only thing holding me back is Nigel the ninja rabbit. He trims the grass for us, if a little inconsistently...there are clearly patches that taste better than others, where we've reseeded bald patches over the years. Now a TSV of Chamomile turf would be perfect for us!

Jude xx
 
I had a part of my lawn planted last year with creeping ivy. It looks lovely even thought it hasnt all merged together yet. The garden centre suggested it as its more robust than thyme or chamomile but i can imagine they are much nicer and better smelling!
 
Herb lawns aren't as easy as they sound. I love herbs and grow loads in the garden. I've tried a chamomile lawn but its high maintenance and if we get a cool damp summer it won't be happy. The overall effect is patchy other than in mid summer. You might do better than me especially if you're in the South West where temperatures are a degree or two warmer than the rest of the UK. Gets warmer earlier in the spring too.

I love thyme and have both the clump forming and the creeping ones. Covered in bees in about July. Lovely! Not sure how much you could really walk on it without causing damage.

Will try and post a picture of my main herb bed in the height of summer.

I also have a lavender patch. That's been fantastic. Next to the summer decking (its a small "mobile" deck that gets taken in in winter) and it wonderful to sit there in summer watching all the buzzy bumblebees getting drunk on nectar. I have enough to harvest some and enjoy the rest. I think the bed is about 12ft by 10ft.

I love my garden!!
 
Sounds lovely. Fingers crossed for a good summer so you can enjoy it. This summer will be my first one where I have retired so I am expecting to enjoy the garden more. As a workaholic I always felt guilty if I went outside.
 
My garden, and my allotment, are my solace in this hectic world. I love the time spent on the garden and whatever stresses and strains are in my life just disappear. I like the physical hard work of the allotment and the pottering in the garden. My garden is mature and stuffed to the gills so its really only pruning back and potting up baskets and containers that needs my attention. Oh and mowing the small lawn at the front and back.

I know gardening is a chore or a luxury for some but my country girl heart couldn't live without it.
 
Tinkerbell it sounds lovely - you will have to post some pics when its in its prime! i love the idea of a nice garden but dont really enjoy the effort involved!
 
I'm in the SE and being south of the Downs we tend to have a micro climate a few degrees warmer than they get in, say Mid Sussex. I'm constantly battling aginst ivy and virginia creeper invading from the garden behind ours (at least the VC looks striking in the autumn). I think I've always disliked it because the suckers on the bedroom windows terrified me at my Nana's house when I was little! That coupled with my older brother reading Day of the Triffids to me as a bedtime story and the weird sounds from the airing cupboard.

Jude xx
 
Oh now I love Virginia Creeper! The house I lived in as a child was swathed in the stuff. But it was a very old stone built house with a proper slate roof so Virginia Creeper didn't really do any damage. Not least because my dad used to hack it off when it got near roof level. I quite like its little sucker feet. Wouldn't do for us all to like the same though.
 

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