THYME HONEY-MYRTLE (Melaleuca thymifolia) 200 seeds

Melaleuca thymifolia, known as the Thyme Honey-Myrtle is a small compact shrub that grows to 1-1.5 metres high.

The plant has delicate reddish young stems and blue-green foliage, both spicily aromatic when bruised. The simple leaves are about 1 cm long in even pairs pointing upwards close to the stems.

On ripe wood, below the new tips, are small clusters of stemless flowers, rich mauve in spring and summer and bluish-purple in early winter. They are the 'claw' type of flower in which the stamens are joined lower down and free towards the tips where they curve inwards. They are like five-feathered petals of firm substance. Flowers often open eight months of the year, freely around late November and then slowly till autumn when another flush occurs. After this flowers open unevenly depending on the weather and finally cease towards mid-winter, full of buds for next spring.

It is long-lived and recovers well from drought and other setbacks, though exposure to strong winds can cause a permanent lean, or plants may even be dislodged. It is useful in a rockery, in group plantings, or for extensive ground covers lightly trimmed. Wet soil conditions are no bar to this plant. Quite frost hardy.

For sale is a 1/4 gram packet which is approximately 200 fresh seeds.

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