Can anyone identify this plant?

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I inherited it in my new house, I’d like to buy a few more but I’m clueless and don’t know what it is.

Looks like creeping thyme

If it’s flowering now most likely heather

looks like heather? nice flowers, but goes really twiggy and scratchy.

That’s bell heather.

Yes it’s Heather . There are lots of different types , with flowers in the purple - pink spectrum .

It really doesn’t

its heather

@marsaline it’s subjective - at a glance, I thought it looked like red creeping. Is there any need to correct me? I can clap if you like. Well done you gardener extraordinaire….

100% heather

Bell heather. Likes acid soils. Bees enjoy it.

I’d like to buy a few more but I’m clueless and don’t know what it is.
You could always propagate it; now is a good time to do layering. Doing this means that you will get identical babies.
Info here.

Nope. Heather

It’s just frustrating when people who don’t know the answer use plant ID apps to give an answer that is more often than not incorrect.

It doesn’t look at all like creeping thyme.

@marsaline I didn’t use an app. My mum has some in her garden and it was just a guess. Sorry about that

Perfect Thank you so much. I think I’ll definitely have a go at propagating it. I hadn’t thought of that.

This is the gardening board and funnily enough, there are some actual gardening experts on it. And yes, there is a need to correct people when they get plant id wrong.

Identifying plants isn't subjective!

I think identifying plants from a photo is subjective and you don’t get to decide whether that is a fact on an opinion forum. Goodness me, it’s just a plant. Time to get on with real life.

Creeping thyme is a diferent form ( shape ) . It’s more thin and flat and spreading, like a mat.

Heather is more of a mound shape, even though lots of them together might look like a mat.

Heathers have flowers on the end of each tiny stalk, which sticks up. Up close they look like little bells ( hence the common name bell Heather ). Thyme flowers are flat with four petals and stamens.

You can see in these photos that the flowers of thyme and heathers are completely different.

Also it’s more likely to be a heather flowering in March in the Uk.

So no, it’s not subjective at all.

Sorry but the identification of anything is not subjective. It is factually one thing or another.

Dear me this is like the feminism board all of a sudden

My point is that identifying things from photographs is subjective. Not that identity is subjective. This particular picture is clear and easy to identify (not to me as previously established!) but equally it could be a less clear photograph or a more unusual plant and then you might disagree about what plant it is.

There are examples on this very expert board where multiple people cannot decide which plant is in the picture.

It's lovely, I want some.

Put a picture of the leaf into Google, it will tell you