Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme Live Plant Cutting

Thymus serpyllum ‘Pink Chintz’

Create low-growing texture and seasonal color with Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme.

This ornamental thyme is appreciated for its gray-green aromatic foliage, spreading growth habit, and pink flowers. Under suitable growing conditions, it can gradually form a dense mat and attract visiting bees, butterflies, and other pollinators while blooming.

Pink Chintz is well suited for rock gardens, pathway edges, borders, containers, cottage gardens, and groundcover plantings.

Each cutting is freshly harvested from plants grown at our Blue Ridge Mountain homestead and carefully prepared for shipment.

What You Will Receive

• One fresh, unrooted Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme cutting

• Approximately 4–6 inches long

• One rockwool rooting cube

• Moisture-protective packaging for transit

• Basic care and propagation instructions

This listing is for an unrooted plant cutting—not an established, rooted plant or finished groundcover plant.

Because each cutting is naturally grown and individually harvested, its size, branching, foliage color, fragrance, and overall appearance may vary from the listing photographs.

Why Gardeners Love Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme

• Low-growing, spreading habit

• Gray-green aromatic foliage

• Pink flowers under suitable growing conditions

• Appropriate for rock gardens, borders, and containers

• May be planted near pathway edges or between widely spaced stones

• Generally drought tolerant after establishment

• Flowers may attract visiting pollinators

• Can gradually form a groundcover mat

Flowering, foliage density, mature spread, and bloom color can vary according to climate, season, maturity, sunlight, soil, and other growing conditions. A specific bloom date, flower quantity, or rate of coverage cannot be guaranteed.

Growing Information

Botanical Name: Thymus serpyllum ‘Pink Chintz’

Common Name: Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme

Plant Type: Low-growing perennial in suitable growing zones

Light Requirements: Full sun

Water Requirements: Low to moderate after establishment

Growth Habit: Creeping, spreading, and mat-forming

Suitable for Containers: Yes

Pollinator Friendly: Flowers may attract visiting pollinators

Groundcover Use: Yes, under suitable growing conditions

Once rooted and transplanted, Pink Chintz performs best in a sunny location with well-draining soil. Avoid keeping established plants continuously saturated.

It may tolerate occasional light foot traffic after becoming established, but it should not be planted where it will receive frequent or heavy traffic.

Foliage may remain evergreen or semi-evergreen in some climates, while colder conditions can cause seasonal dormancy or foliage loss.

Pink Chintz is grown primarily as an ornamental thyme. Its fragrance and flavor may differ from culinary varieties such as English Thyme.

Garden performance, mature spread, flowering, and winter hardiness depend on the purchaser’s climate, growing zone, soil, planting location, and ongoing care.

Popular Uses

• Groundcover plantings

• Pathway edges

• Rock gardens

• Pollinator-friendly growing spaces

• Areas between widely spaced stepping stones

• Container gardening

• Cottage gardens

• Ornamental herb gardens

Important: Care Immediately After Delivery

Please unpack your cutting immediately after delivery and remove all shipping materials.

Place the lower portion of the stem in clean, room-temperature water for a minimum of 48 hours. Keep all foliage above the waterline, with only the lower stem and at least one propagation node in the water.

This recovery period allows the cutting to rehydrate and recover from normal shipping stress before rooting begins.

During the recovery period:

• Keep the cutting in bright, indirect light

• Keep it away from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures

• Replace the water if it becomes cloudy

• Do not add fertilizer

• Do not allow any foliage to remain submerged

Temporary wilting or softness can occur after shipping and does not necessarily indicate that the cutting is damaged.

Rooting Your Cutting

After the initial 48-hour recovery period, continue rooting the cutting using one of these methods:

• Keep the lower stem and propagation node in clean water

• Place the lower stem and propagation node into the included pre-soaked rockwool cube supplied with water

Keep all foliage above the waterline and do not allow the rockwool cube to dry out. Provide bright, indirect light while roots develop.

Do not transfer the cutting into soil immediately after delivery.

Allow the cutting to remain in water or water-supplied rockwool until several healthy roots have developed and the roots are at least two inches long. Once the roots reach that length, the cutting may be transplanted into an appropriate, well-draining potting mix.

Rooting time varies according to temperature, light, water quality, and other growing conditions.

Learn More Before You Buy

Visit The Robertson Rottie Ranch on YouTube and follow our Mountain Apothecary series for:

• Herb profiles

• Propagation and rooting techniques

• Groundcover gardening

• Pollinator-friendly landscapes

• Herb garden design

• Homestead gardening

• Garden planning and maintenance

Important Information About Live Cuttings

This product is a living, unrooted plant cutting. Successful rooting and future plant growth depend on shipping conditions, temperature, handling, propagation method, moisture, light, climate, and ongoing care.

We carefully select and package each cutting, but rooting success, flowering, mature spread, and future plant performance cannot be guaranteed.

If The Robertson Rottie Ranch makes an error with your order or is unable to fulfill it, we will address the issue in accordance with our Return & Refund Policy.

Shipping

Live plant orders are generally processed within 1–5 business days and normally ship Monday through Wednesday to reduce the likelihood of weekend carrier delays.

Your cutting will be wrapped with moisture-protective materials and carefully packaged for transit. Tracking information will be provided when your order ships.

Live cuttings are available for purchase only when we are actively accepting and fulfilling plant orders. If seasonal temperatures or severe weather require us to pause live-plant shipping, this listing will be marked unavailable until ordering resumes.

Customers are responsible for confirming that this plant can legally be shipped to and grown at their destination.

From Our Homestead to Yours

This cutting is grown and freshly harvested by Mountain Moon Apothecary, the botanical and herb-growing line of The Robertson Rottie Ranch, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Thank you for supporting our small mountain homestead.