Thyme to garden!

This afternoon, Olivier and Sylvie arrived and after a convivial lunch together we attacked the experimental garden's first real gardening job, a small but symbolic begining. I had scattered here and there a handful of different thymes, some of which were really suffering so we decided to re-group them into a sort of mini thyme garden. Everyone was ok about the placement, along a small south-facing rockery at the top of the garden.
We got rid of a rather invasive Iberis sempivirens or snowflake plant and then got down to weeding and preparing the soil. It was very enjoyable working as a team of three, the job got a long much quicker and we got to know each other by chatting at the same time. The decisions were made step by step and the whole afternoon flowed very smoothly. In all we planted, Thymus vulguris, Thymus serpyllum, Prostanthera cuneata (Australian thyme), Thymus X citriodorus (Lemon thyme), Thymus "Pinewood" plus a Satureja montana (Winter savoury), I know it is not a thyme but we felt it had it's place amongst the thymes all the same.
We sat and drank a herbal tea and looked at the plot above the thymes and decided that taller bushy plants, such as Rosemary, lavender, hyssop etc would go very well behind, maybe starting with the oreganos and marjolaines and then moving up in size. It is amazing how an afternoon's gardening can really get things going....when the others had gone, I began digging and clearing the plot and will carry on tomorrow.