A creeping thyme lawn is an excellent alternative to a traditional lawn. Planting low-growing creeping thyme as a lawn substitute is easier to maintain and requires less watering. Additionally, creeping thyme transforms your yard every summer with a blanket of pink, purple or magenta-red flowers — something a typical lawn can never do. Also, a creeping thyme lawn thrives in full sun and doesn’t suffer sun scorch like traditional turfgrass.

Mushrooms growing in lawns are a common sight. Small clusters of white, brown, orange or even red fungi can appear in grass seemingly from nowhere. Most types of lawn mushrooms have a characteristic umbrella-shaped or flat cap on top of a slender stem. Even though many mushroom species prefer shaded areas, lawn mushrooms have the habit of popping up even in sunny yards.

Orange mushrooms growing in your yard or lawn can seem to appear overnight. Bright orange mushrooms are easy to spot growing among blades of grass in dark, shaded areas, or on rotting tree trunks. Species of these orange fruiting bodies can grow in spongy clusters or have cylindrical stems with rounded or flat caps with gills on their underside.

Lemon thyme is an aromatic herbaceous bushy shrub with lemon-scented edible leaves and small, tubular, purplish-pink flowers. The resilient subshrub, with its fragrant oval leaves, has many landscaping and culinary uses. Its low growth, evergreen foliage, and resistance to drought and heat make it a great addition to any garden landscape. Additionally, you can harvest its leaves to use in cooking.

Red creeping thyme is a colorful, herbaceous ground cover shrub with spectacular deep pink-red tubular flowers. Creeping thyme, with its semi-evergreen foliage, is an excellent mat-forming landscaping shrub. And when red creeping thyme blooms in summer, it transforms gardens with a carpet of dark pink, magenta, and deep reddish hues.

Red mushrooms can seem to appear in your backyard or lawn from nowhere. These red-colored fungi can grow overnight, creating small clusters of dark orange, deep red, or bright red spongy growths. And red mushrooms or toadstools are some of the most fascinating fungi due to their striking red colors and unusual shapes.

Creeping thyme is a beautiful herbaceous ground cover shrub-like plant that spreads out to form a carpet of colorful purple, red, and pink flowers. As a dwarf perennial aromatic low-growing herb, creeping thyme is perfect for growing in sunny garden landscapes. In addition, the easy-care, mat-forming plant, with its glossy green leaves and small clusters of flowers on erect shoots, has tremendous value in beautifying a front or backyard.