Thyme is one of the best -known and used herbs, both in our dishes and in an alternative medicine: thyme, nicely named Farigoule in the South, is a perennial enjoying poor soils and heat. Here is our tips for drying thyme, keeping it, using it in the kitchen or for its many properties. Many varieties exist such as common thyme, lemon thyme, wild thyme, woolly thyme, thyme lining bressingham, early minor thyme and more than 300 others.