Most of the herbal forms are shrubby perennials most flourish in sunny, exposed sites in dry, lean, or ordinary garden soil.
Members of the daisy family ( Compositae), artemisias are distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere as well as occurring in South Africa and western South America. Growing artemisias is an herb lover’s dream, uniting utility and beauty. Artemisias add sparkle to every planting, enhance neighboring bright colors, and create soothing oases during the hot days of summer and fall when they reach their peak of form. Never again will I relegate them to the sidelines. I now grow artemisias in tubs, borders, trimmed hedges, and as single accents. lactiflora), topped in late summer with sprays of cream white flowers–and their bracing aromas. schmidtiana ‘Nana’) to tall, arching shrublike white mugwort ( A. Only when we stopped moving and I could grow other artemisias did I discover their beauty: their velvety leaves in subtle shades of soft green, gray, silver, and near white their range of form–from the round cushions of silvermound ( A. Its leaves proved so effective as a medicinal tea for stomach complaints and as a moth repellent that this herb moved with us wherever we went, always settling easily into the outskirts of our vegetable gardens in a rough hedge, handy for harvesting. Nearly forty years ago, I planted my first artemisia, a common wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium).
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