Thyme Collection

6 Live Thyme Cuttings

Discover the diversity of thyme with a collection that brings together six distinct varieties, ranging from classic culinary herbs to ornamental groundcovers.

Whether you are creating a kitchen herb garden, designing a pollinator-friendly landscape, planting a rock garden, or expanding your homestead herb collection, this assortment offers an introduction to the different fragrances, foliage, growth habits, and garden uses found within the thyme family.

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

Included in This Collection

English Thyme

A classic culinary thyme commonly used in soups, stews, roasted vegetables, poultry dishes, seasoning blends, and traditional kitchen gardens.

German Thyme

A robust culinary thyme variety appreciated for its strong aroma, flavor, and dependable garden performance.

French Thyme

An aromatic culinary thyme traditionally associated with French-inspired recipes and herb blends.

Lemon Thyme

A fragrant thyme with citrus-like notes that makes an interesting addition to culinary gardens, containers, and specialty herb collections.

Silver Thyme

An attractive variegated thyme with silver-edged foliage that adds texture and visual interest to containers, borders, and herb gardens.

Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme

A low-growing ornamental thyme that can produce pink flowers and form a spreading mat under suitable growing conditions. It is well suited for rock gardens, borders, pathway edges, and pollinator-friendly spaces.

Fragrance, flavor, foliage color, flower production, and growth habit can vary according to variety, season, maturity, sunlight, temperature, soil, and other growing conditions.

What You Will Receive

• Six fresh, unrooted thyme cuttings

• One cutting of each variety listed above

• Cuttings approximately 4–6 inches long

• Six rockwool rooting cubes

• Moisture-protective packaging for transit

• Basic care and propagation instructions

This collection contains unrooted plant cuttings—not established, rooted plants.

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

Growing Information

The varieties in this collection have different growth habits and garden uses.

• Perennial in suitable growing zones

• Suitable for containers and well-draining garden beds

• Flowers may attract visiting pollinators

• Generally drought tolerant after establishment

• Includes culinary and ornamental varieties

• Suitable for herb gardens, rock gardens, borders, and container plantings

Thyme grows best in a location with good drainage. Once rooted and established, avoid keeping the soil continually saturated.

Pink Chintz Creeping Thyme has a spreading groundcover habit, while the culinary varieties generally grow in more upright or mounded forms.

Garden performance, mature size, flower production, and winter hardiness depend on the individual variety, the purchaser’s climate, growing zone, soil, planting location, and ongoing care.

Perfect For

• Herb gardens

• Kitchen gardens

• Pollinator-friendly growing spaces

• Rock gardens

• Cottage gardens

• Container gardening

• Homestead gardens

• Specialty plant collections

Wash culinary herbs thoroughly before use. This collection is sold as live plant material and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Important: Care Immediately After Delivery

Please unpack all six cuttings immediately after delivery and remove all shipping materials.

Place the lower portion of each 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.

Keep each variety identified and separated during recovery and rooting.

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

During the recovery period:

• Keep the cuttings in bright, indirect light

• Keep them away from direct sunlight and extreme temperatures

• Replace the water if it becomes cloudy

• Do not add fertilizer

• Do not allow foliage to remain submerged

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

Rooting Your Cuttings

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

• Keep the lower stem and propagation node in clean water

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

Six rockwool cubes are included so each cutting can be rooted separately.

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

Do not transfer the cuttings into soil immediately after delivery.

Allow each 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 a cutting’s roots reach that length, it may be transplanted into an appropriate, well-draining potting mix.

The six varieties may root at different rates. Rooting time varies according to the variety, 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

• Harvesting guides

• Herb preservation methods

• Culinary herb uses

• Homestead gardening

• Growing and care instructions

Important Information About Live Cuttings

These products are living, unrooted plant cuttings. 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 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 cuttings 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 these plants can legally be shipped to and grown at their destination.

From Our Homestead to Yours

These cuttings are 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.