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Something is happening to my ground cover. This took me several years to fill in and now it's dying. Help! Wendy

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My sense is that part of your Wooly Thyme patch had a "melt-down" from the high humidity and hot temperatures we experienced over the last month or so. Just cut out the dead area – actually cut back into the live part of the plant which will stimulate new shoots to grow and in no time the plant will fill in the open spaces.

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