Beach Wormwood is a nice accent plant in the garden. Its leaves look as if they
are covered with powdered sugar.
Flowers are yellow, in tall clusters.
It is a Perennial plant which means it lives or continues more than
two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not. Beach Wormwood is
one of the best rockgarden artemisias and a standby of Southern gardeners near
the coast. 'Silver Brocade' is a choice cultivar with soft, felt-like leaves.
Its size, 3 to 4 feet wide and under 1 foot tall, makes it a wonderful ground
cover or edging plant for dry areas.
The plant prefers light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils, requires
well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. The plant prefers
acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It
requires dry or moist soil and can tolerate drought.
The blooms are not valuable, but they do
not detract from the plant. Deer will occasionally browse on this species,
perhaps because it does not have the strong, herby odor that other artemisias
do. When it blooms it attracts butterflies and bees.
Photographed in Yogi Nursery,
Delhi
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