How competitive is the Creeping Thyme Plants niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

14 brands and 17 sellers compete in Creeping Thyme Plants on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Creeping Thyme Plants products take 53% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 79% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Creeping Thyme Plants?

Creeping Thyme Plants buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Plant Growth, Size-Overall, Value For Money, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.0%.

What does it cost to enter the Creeping Thyme Plants niche?

Creeping Thyme Plants sells for £7.76 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £2.73–£19.93. The average incumbent carries 204 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Creeping Thyme Plants

Creeping Thyme Plants shows low returns (0.0%), but a small market ($10K/yr) keeps it on the watch list.

Signals Low Review Barrier Quality Gap

Flapen Score

Worth a look

This niche Category average

Is Creeping Thyme Plants profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Creeping Thyme Plants is a £10K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (33K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 79% of demand. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun. Verdict: Worth a look — 55/100.

Creeping Thyme Plants: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved +53.5% over the last 90 days and 3.7% of searches end in a purchase.

£10K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr3K

Search volume / yr+53.5%33K

Conversion rate3.7%

Avg price£7.76

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 79% of demand, so 21% of the market is open.

21%

open market share

Brands · sellers14 · 17

Top-5 product click share53%

Open market21%

Avg brand age58 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 3.8★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 26 products

Top Creeping Thyme Plants products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Thyme Plug Plants. Creeping Red. Evergreen Perennial herb That is Amazing Ground Cover. Medium Plug Plants x 4. Available from Bedwen Plants.

Price: £13.24
Rating: 3.9/5
Reviews: 76
Age: 3y ago

Purple Creeping Thyme Seeds Perennial Bee-Friendly Ground Cover for Rock Gardens Walkways & Lawns Fragrant Hardy Low-Maintenance

Price: £3.44
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 166
Age: 7mo ago

Thyme Creeping Red herb Aromatic Leaves Crimson red Ground Cover 9cm Pot

Price: £5.99
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 1,281
Age: 12y ago

20000 Creeping Thyme Seeds Wild Thyme Flower Plant Rock Cress Ground Cover Flower Wildflower Seed Mix Covers 35m Carpet Evergreen Plant for Landscaping Lawn Alternative

Price: £7.06
Rating: 3.1/5
Reviews: 155
Age: 1y ago

Thyme Creeping Lemon evergreen herb plant aromatic leaves pink-mauve flowers summer loved by bees ground cover 9cm pot

Price: £5.73
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 870
Age: 12y ago

Newest

by launch date

30000+ Creeping Thyme Carpet Spreading Thyme Perennial Hard Ground Cover (Red)

Price: £6.70
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 2mo ago

30000+ Creeping Thyme Carpet Spreading Thyme Perennial Hard Ground Cove (Blue)

Price: £6.65
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 2mo ago

Purple Creeping Thyme Seeds Thymus serpyllum Low Growing Fragrant Herb Ground Cover with Purple Flowers Lawn Alternative OliSeeds (20 Seeds)

Price: £2.73
Rating: 3.8/5
Reviews: 17
Age: 4mo ago

Plant Theory Set of 3 Creeping Thyme Herb Plant Thyme Serpyllum Snowdrift 9cm Pot

Price: £12.68
Rating: 3.5/5
Reviews: 3
Age: 4mo ago

Plant Theory 9cm Pot Creeping Thyme Or Thymus Serpyllum Herb Plant Thyme Serpyllum Snowdrift

Price: £6.50
Rating: 3.5/5
Reviews: 3
Age: 4mo ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 53% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)3 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

53%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

15%

Bedwen24%
Generic20%
Country Climbers & Garden Favourites17%
Simply Garden11%
Thompson & Morgan7%
Plant theory6%
Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 15%)

Creeping Thyme Plants demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume33KCVR3.7%Products26Brands14Top 5 Brands79%OOS Rate8.3%Rating3.8★Reviews204Avg BSR#265

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 39.4×

Top Creeping Thyme Plants search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

creeping thyme plants23K/yr +76.1%5.6% conv.
creeping thyme plug plants9K/yr +13.4%2.6% conv.
red creeping thyme plants uk951/yr -51.1%0.0% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Creeping Thyme Plants

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

92% of reviews

Plant Growth55%

“Good germination”

Value For Money12%

“Good value too”

Quality-Overall12%

“Good quality”

Advertised Vs Actual Product3%

“is as advertised”

Size-Overall2%

“Good size”

What buyers complain about

90% of reviews

Plant Growth40%

“Didn't grow”

Size-Overall17%

“The pack is small”

Value For Money8%

“I'm thinking the retail price is a bit steep”

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%

“Deceiving picture”

Quality-Overall5%

“Impossible to say what the quality”

Creeping Thyme Plants return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.0%

Return rate

63%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Advertised Vs Actual Product

47%

2Plant Growth

18%

3Size-Overall

13%

4Value For Money

5Color

Common Creeping Thyme Plants questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Creeping Thyme Plants 55/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £10K/yr across 26 tracked products. 2 of 9 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +53.5% over the last 90 days.