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67NN   Thymus »Doone Valley«
2007  D-22
2005  GB-01
»Low, spreading, evergreen herb of shrubby growth forming a mat
of green and gold variegated leaves, overlaid in summer by clusters
of lavender-pink flowers.« (Pflanzenschild burall floraprint 984342)
in www.plantago.nl/plantindex  (07/2007)
in www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/  (07/2007)
in www.thymus.co.uk (07/2007)
»Mat forming with prostrate stems.  Oval bright green, splashed gold,
lemon scented leaves.  Growing tips of stems brick red before flowering.  Purple-pink flowers.
Earliest known record 1975 Potterton and Martin, Nettleton, Caistor, Lincolnshire.
Raised by Bill Archer and named after his house, Doone Valley, in Farnham, Surrey.


zum Namen: s.o.
Wuchsform: locker-buschig
Blätter: gelb-bunt
Blüte:
Duft/Geschmack: sehr starkes Zitronenaroma
Sonstiges: »Doone Valley« ist 2007 Baumarktpflanze;
und war doch noch in den 1980ern absolut rar und vor allem DIE Aroma-Sensation.