Thyme – Thymus Vulgaris

Yellow Variegated Thyme is also called Golden Variegated Thyme and Anderson Gold Thyme. This perennial herb is renowned for its small, lanceolate, yellow variegated green leaves that give off a lemon scent.

Yellow Variegated Thyme is an excellent way of adding flavour to meat and fish dishes, salads, pasta, pizzas and also vegetables, desserts and sorbets.

Silver Queen Thyme, also known as White Variegated Thyme, is a herb that produces small, elongated grey-green leaves that display a white variegation.

In the kitchen, this herb is used add flavour to meat, fish pasta, salads and pizzas. On a medicinal level, White Variegated Thyme has balsamic properties, is used to treat catarrh and is a natural antiseptic.

Recognisable thanks to its yellow and green coloured leaves, Citrus Thyme has a strong citrus smell due to its essential oils. This perennial herb variety of thyme is used in the kitchen to add flavour to fish and meat dishes, grilled vegetables and even sorbets and fruit bottled in spirits.

As with the other herbs, Citrus Thyme has beneficial medicinal properties that are applied to the treatment of coughs, colds and digestive disorders.

Characterised by its white leaves with red or green spots, the Foxley Thyme is a splendid variety of coloured thyme that is widely used for ornamental purposes and that maintains all of the traits of classic thyme.

The perennial herb, Faustini Thyme is widely used in the kitchen to add flavour to meat and fish dishes, sauces and vegetables. This variety of thyme also has several medicinal properties: antiseptic (it is ideal for elongating food preservation times), antibacterial, antioxidant, digestive, spasmolytic and as a urinary tract disinfectant.

Lemon Thyme, commonly named “Doone Valley” Thyme, is a perennial herb. The leaves, with their strong citrus flavour, are used both fresh and dried, mainly at the end of the cooking process, to add flavour to fish and meat dishes, pasta, grilled and steamed vegetables and roast potatoes.

Lemon Thyme is also used in fruit sorbets, infusions and in flavoured liqueurs and vinegars.