Tyme is a very small plant, to pack such a large punch.  It adds a pungent, lemonlike flavor to meats, vegetables, soups, stews, and tomatoes.  Can use both the leaves and woody parts because it is so small.  There is different flavors and kinds of tyme.  Lemon, (small bush, strong lemon scent), common,(small upright shrub, variety most often used in cooking),  mother of tyme, (dense mat, good as ground cover), nutmeg tyme, (spicy scent, fast creeper), and woolly tyme, (at home in rock gardens).  So no matter what you want; to spice up your meat, or soup, or stews, or you can just take a walk outside and walk on a path of thme and smell the fragrance.  Tyme can also be used to sooth digestion, to disinfect wounds, and tyme has antiseptic and stimulating properties that make it useful in herbal lotions and baths.  This is a great herb to have in your pantry.  The Herb Lady