Wormwood steller planting and care. How to plant Steller's wormwood, which variety to choose and how to care for the plant. Tall types of decorative wormwood
Varieties decorative wormwood in landscape design
Decorative wormwood is unique in the color of its leaves from silver to gray-green. It is hardy, unpretentious, tolerates shaping haircuts, winters well.
The best varieties of undersized decorative wormwood
Artemisia garden, which is used for suburban gardening, has dozens of varieties. They differ in stem height, foliage color, bush and flower shape. Suitable for growing in conditions temperate climate with cold winters and dry summers.
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Decorative wormwood with silvery leaves is a great backdrop for any greenery in the garden
Depending on the external characteristics, the plant can be used in group and single plantings, for decorating a border, an alpine slide or a garden.
From undersized varieties wormwood decorative distinguish the following:
- Wormwood Schmidt - forms a compact spherical bush due to short and numerous shoots. Height up to 30 cm, silver-green leaves, inconspicuous flowers that require cutting before flowering.
- Stella - has open stems up to 40 cm with silvery foliage. It grows rapidly, therefore it requires annual rejuvenation or division, it can be used to decorate retaining walls.
- Field - characterized by a branched stem up to 60 cm high with gray-green pubescent leaves. Resistant to severe frosts, does not require cutting flower stalks.
The described varieties are perennials that can grow up to 10 years in one place with the formation of decorative thickets.
Wormwood tall
Tall varieties are also very popular in landscape design. They act as a background against which undersized conifers look favorably and flowering plants. When planting them, you need to take into account the growth rate and leave a free area within a radius of a meter.
Garden tall varieties include:
- Wormwood - suitable only for single plantings, as it inhibits the growth of neighboring plants. Reaches a height of 60-70 cm, the leaves are white-green, has small decorative flowers.
- Louisiana - the tallest, reaches 1 m in height, has straight stems with silvery foliage. Grows well in one season.
- Jeanlim is a rare variety with yellow-green foliage, the brightness of which persists until autumn.
All varieties of wormwood begin to actively vegetate later than other perennials, so they can be planted next to primroses and ground covers. A photo of decorative wormwood with silvery foliage confirms the possibility of its use as a background. Since it is unpretentious, drought-resistant and not afraid of frost, it is widely used in landscape gardening.
An ancient philosopher said that the Euphrates valley was filled with the fragrance of bitter wormwood, and shepherds sometimes use it as an intoxicant. And today, an infusion of wormwood is part of some drinks, such as vermouth. But more often wormwood was used as a medicine.
The genus wormwood has more than 350 species distributed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
Wormwood - perennial, annual or biennial, semi-shrub or herbaceous plant. The leaves are located in regular order. Inflorescences are baskets. Marginal flowers with filamentous corolla, yellow, pink or white; middle - tubular, pink or yellow.
The beauty of the openwork leaves of wormwood is unusual and very refined, including different shades of gray - from silver-white, silver-blue and steel to grayish-green.
Depending on the type, decorative wormwood can be 20 cm 1 m high, some lend themselves perfectly to a haircut. Wormwood is decorative all season.
It is unpretentious, drought-resistant, which allows it to be used in places that are very warm in summer.
Undersized species of wormwood
Steller's Wormwood
Found on the rocks of Japan, Alaska, Far East, Norway. In addition, it is widely settled in North America. It is observed on the dunes, in the mouths of the rivers, rises on the coastal cliffs.
Perennial plant with open shoots, 30 cm tall, with cut silvery foliage. During the flowering period, the stems grow 40 cm long. Baskets are yellowish, small, they appear in the middle of summer.
Peduncles are best cut, otherwise they will close the leaves - the main decoration of wormwood.
Great for planting on retaining walls and rocky hills, good plant for a gravel garden. This wormwood goes well with cloves, gray fescue, creeping gypsophila, clary sage and stonecrop.
Wormwood Schmidt
Wormwood Schmidt comes from the Far East, also found in the south Kuril Islands and on Sakhalin, in Japan. It grows on the sea coast and in the mountains on poor soils.
We know the form "Nana" ("Nana"). Its numerous shoots form rounded openwork "bushes" or small low dense curtains, 25 cm tall. The foliage is pinnately dissected, silver-green.
Blooms in August. AT middle lane wormwood Schmidt is not very stable, often dies in winter, from an abundance of snow. But it can recover.
Wormwood Schmidt variety "Povis Castle" - hybrid origin. Shoots 35-40 cm tall, densely leafy. The foliage is pinnately dissected, silver-green, openwork. The plant is long rhizome.
In the spring, this wormwood grows at the expense of its root offspring. Blossoms in July, yellow, inconspicuous flowers.
Wormwood field
Distributed in Russia, in Siberia. It grows in pine forests, steppes, sandy places, wastelands.
Perennial 15-60 cm tall. The stem of the wormwood field is ascending, branched, reddish. The leaves are pinnately dissected below and simple linear above, covered with a gray silky down or glabrous.
The flowers are reddish or yellow, in oval baskets. Flowering occurs in July. It is of great interest, because it is not of the same type. There are plants 15 cm in height.
Tall types of decorative wormwood
Wormwood
It is the most bitter plant.
With bitter wormwood, the most unpretentious herbs grow poorly or do not grow at all, and as for garden plants and vegetables, then this neighborhood is by no means good for them.
This wormwood releases phytoncide, which has a depressing effect on neighboring plants. Wormwood is well recognizable and decorative, despite the small flowers collected in inexpressive panicles.
But the white-green silky foliage looks beautiful. Wormwood loves in the garden open spaces, but it is best to plant it away from dahlias, carnations, legumes.
The bushes of this wormwood are pleasant to perceive, they smell great, especially in sunny weather. Wormwood blooms in July.
Wormwood Louisiana
grassy perennial with stems about 1 m long. Forms wide thickets. In summer, brownish flowers appear, each less than 1 cm in diameter; they have no decorative value.
Fruits are best removed. Needs a sunny location. Not winter-hardy in the middle lane, you need shelter with spruce branches. Does not tolerate stagnant water.
Wormwood variety "Zhanlim"
Perennial plant, hardy.
The variety is interesting for its yellowish-green, dissected leaves. The coloring is saved until late autumn. When crushed, the leaves release a scent. The small white flowers that appear at the ends of the stems in the summer season have no decorative value.
Wormwood grows best in moderately fertile soils on dry soils in absolute sun. Good drainage is required. From dampness, the Zhanlim variety rots. The multicolored yellow-green leaves contrast beautifully with other flowers in the gardens.
Wormwood annual
Homeland - Russia, Transcaucasia, Crimea, Asia Minor, Mediterranean, China, Japan.
An annual plant forming a pyramidal shrub 1.50 m tall. Leaves are dark green and fragrant when crushed. The flowers of the annual wormwood have no decorative value. Wormwood annual lends itself perfectly to a haircut.
Wormwood pontic
Distributed in Siberia and the Caucasus. It occurs in dry areas in the steppe and forest-steppe zones.
Wormwood Pontic has a creeping rhizome, thin stems, strong, densely leafy. The foliage is doubly pinnately dissected, the lower ones with a petiole, the others are sessile, they are grayish-green above and white below.
Baskets are spherical, drooping, small, in paniculate inflorescence, painted in white-yellowish color. Pontic wormwood blooms in August. Winters without shelter.
Artemisia rutolistnaya
Originally from the regions of Siberia, Central and Central Asia. It occurs in mountain steppes and on stone slopes.
Semi-shrub 80 cm high. Perennial stems are branched and covered with brown-gray cracked bark, forming a rounded bush. Annual shoots are gray-silky.
Foliage petiolate without lobules. The plate is reniform or rounded. Baskets are hemispherical, drooping or rejected in a paniculate inflorescence. The leaves are hairy, and the outer ones are oblong.
Receptacle with hairs or glabrous.
Wormwood location
The plant is undemanding to the soil, drought-resistant and winter-hardy. The key to success for silver leafed sagebrush is well-drained, poor soil and an open, sunny position.
Wormwood with green leaves will suit moist and fertile soils. At frequent watering, the plant may turn green and lose its decorative effect.
When planting, it would be nice to add sand to the pit so that the earth is loose.
For successful wintering of wormwood, drainage is necessary. Wormwood is unpretentious, grows well on poor soils. undersized species wormwood can be planted on the southern hills, on terraces, between stones.
Caring for decorative wormwood
Watering should be rare only in hot weather. The rapid growth of wormwood bushes requires constant pruning of rhizomes. The flowering of wormwood cannot be called decorative.
Reproduction of decorative wormwood
seeds, perennial species segments of rhizomes and dividing the bush, and semi-shrub species - cuttings. Seeds are sown in a greenhouse in April.
Wormwood is well cut. The main thing is that the roots form before the cold weather.
The use of decorative wormwood
Most of the types of wormwood are used as an ornamental leafy plant in plantings, Steller's wormwood - in borders.
In horticulture, wormwood is used because of the silvery openwork foliage, which, together with purple, white and blue flowers give the composition airiness. These plants are decorative all summer. Tall species of wormwood are planted in flower beds to soften colors.
Wormwood responds well to a haircut; compositions of different heights can be formed from them. Decorative wormwood goes well with some plants. You just need to choose the right combinations.
Partners of decorative wormwood
Matches with roses different shades. Combinations of wormwood with golden or red-leaved forms of plants are spectacular: small-flowered geyhera ", Thunberg barberry. Ornamental cereals are also appropriate in these plantings.
A low ground cover, Steller's Wormwood prefers to grow in its natural environment on coastal cliffs and rocky slopes. In culture, this species is used for planting on Alpine rollercoaster, rockeries, along the edge of mixborders. The plant is a compact bushes with spreading shoots no more than 30 cm in length. The leaves are carved, silvery, deeply cut. The tips of individual leaves are rounded, which gives the plant a particularly attractive appearance.
The flowering period begins in July-August. At this time, long peduncles up to 50 cm in height appear above the bushes. Each of them is crowned with several nondescript yellow baskets, collected in loose inflorescences.
In horticultural culture, it is customary to cut flower stalks before flowering, otherwise they will close the carved leaves and reduce the decorative effect of the plant.
Steller's Artemisia is suitable for neutral or slightly alkaline soil with high content sand. The species is frost-resistant, drought-resistant, but requires annual rejuvenation, otherwise it loses its compact shape. Rejuvenation is carried out by dividing the bush or hilling the plant.
The most popular variety is "MorisForm" with creeping shoots and almost white foliage.
Name: wormwood (Artemisia) has always been highly valued for its special tart, intoxicating aroma. Known since ancient times wormwood(Artemisia absinthium).
Artemisia atrata
Photo of Voronina Svetlana
Even the ancient Greek philosopher Xenophanes wrote that the valleys of the Euphrates are filled with the fragrance of wormwood, and shepherds often use it as an intoxicating, intoxicating remedy. And in our time, an infusion of wormwood, or absinthe, is part of many drinks, in particular vermouth. And the very name "Wermut" just means wormwood. But much more often they used wormwood as a medicine. In this regard, several variants of the origin of the name of this plant appeared. More often than others, there is a mention of the name of Queen Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, who specially collected and cultivated herbs with healing properties. The name of the Greek goddess of hunting and fertility, Artemis, could also serve as a derivative for the name of this plant, since with the help of wormwood(Artemisia vulgaris) treated female diseases. Or maybe everything is much more prosaic, and the name of the genus comes from the Greek word artemes, which can be translated as: only what is good for health. In any case, the virtues of wormwood have been known since ancient times and they were widely used.
Description: the genus includes more than 400 species distributed in Europe, Asia , Africa and North America.
Plants are perennial, rarely annual or biennial, herbaceous or semi-shrub. The leaves are arranged in the next order, deeply dissected, rarely whole. Inflorescences - baskets, very small, collected in turn in racemose, paniculate or capitate inflorescences. Marginal flowers with a narrow, filiform corolla, white, yellow or pink; middle - tubular, yellow or pink. The fruit is a seed. In 1 g up to 30,000 seeds.
The beauty of the openwork foliage of wormwood, which includes various shades, is unusual and exquisite. gray color- from almost silver-white, steel and silver-blue to grayish-green. Experienced gardeners decorated flower beds with various wormwood as early as the 16th-19th centuries. Depending on the type of wormwood, they can be from 20 cm to 1.5 m high, some lend themselves well to shearing. Plants are decorative throughout the season. In flower beds, they are very unpretentious, drought- and frost-resistant, which allows them to be used in dry areas that are very warm in summer and freezing in winter.
Undersized species:
 Steller's Wormwood- Artemisia stellerana Bess.
It grows on the rocks of the sea coasts of the Far East, Japan, Alaska, Norway. In addition, it is widely settled in North America. Occurs in estuaries, on dunes, climbs coastal cliffs. Perennial with more or less spreading shoots, 20-30 cm long, with beautiful, split, silvery-gray leaves. During flowering, the stems reach 40-50 cm in length. Baskets are small, yellowish, in loose inflorescences, appear from mid-summer to autumn. Peduncles are best cut before flowering, otherwise they will close the leaves - the main decoration of this wormwood. In GBS since 1955 (from Primorye), blooms profusely in August, seeds appear in November (not annually). Easily propagated by seeds. Violin (1960) recommends cutting stems to prevent flowering. Known in culture since 1865 (Poletiko, Mishenkovag 1967), brought to Europe from North America (Pagey, 1932; Ishiyama, 1936; Bailey, 1947; Dictionary of Gardening, 1956; Wyman, 1971). Zolotarev (1896) notes its winter hardiness and recommends it as a border plant.
To maintain a compact form, pruning and annual rejuvenation by hilling or dividing are recommended. Winter-hardy, but freezes in snowless winters. Good for planting on rocky hills and retaining walls, an excellent ground cover for a gravel garden. Steller's wormwood goes well with carnation-grass, gray fescue, creeping gypsophila, clary sage and various types stonecrop. Photo on the left EDSR.
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| Wormwood Schmidt- Artemisia schmidtiana Native to the Far East, found in Sakhalin and the south of the Kuril Islands, as well as in Japan. Settles on poor soils in the mountains and on the coast. We know mainly the form " Nana"("Nana"). Its numerous, densely leafy shoots form openwork rounded "bushes" or small low dense curtains, 25-30 cm high. The leaves are pinnately cut into narrow lobes, silvery green, densely pubescent. It blooms in August - September Under our conditions, the plant is not very stable, often dies in winter, rather than from frost, but from an abundance of snow, but it can recover due to root offspring. Herbaceous perennial with stems up to 1 m tall. Forms common thickets. In summer, brown flowers appear, each less than 1 cm in diameter and of no ornamental value. It is better to remove the formed fruits of a nondescript look. Requires a sunny location. In the middle lane, it is not winter-hardy enough; shelter is necessary with spruce branches. Does not tolerate stagnant water. Sort" Silver Queen"("Silver Queen"), also known as " Silberkonigin"(" Silberkonigin ") was obtained in Great Britain in the 20th century. Height is about 70 cm, forms loose thickets. It has strongly branched, densely pubescent shoots in the upper part. Leaves are lanceolate, sessile. The whole plant is silver-gray. It blooms in July. Baskets collected at the tops of the shoots in compact inexpressive inflorescences. "Valerie Finning"("Valeri Finnig") is distinguished by very characteristic leaves with a top dissected into several sharp teeth. The leaf is gray-green above, and almost white below from dense pubescence. |
 Wormwood Messerschmidt - Artemisia messerschmidtiana Bess.
Siberia, Far East, Mongolia. Slopes with bushy meadow-steppe vegetation, edges. Semi-shrub, 60-80 cm tall. The perennial part of the stem is brown with peeling bark in longitudinal brown stripes. Annual shoots are green-violet, slightly ribbed, with sparse crumpled hairs. The leaves are gray from a continuous felt of matted hairs, 5-7 cm long. (including petiole 1-2 cm long.), doubly pinnatisected. The terminal lobules are lanceolate, entire or with several denticles. All segments at an acute angle are directed to the top of the sheet. At the base of the petiole are simple or dissected ears. Large primary leaf lobes 4-5. In the intervals between the second and subsequent primary lobes, small simple lobules are located along the main axis of the leaf. The inflorescence is paniculate, consisting of separate brushes of baskets. Baskets 4-5 mm in diameter, rounded, drooping, located on relatively short pubescent peduncles. The involucral leaves are pubescent with long hairs. The outer leaves are green, oblong-triangular. The middle ones are ovoid, the inner ones are broadly ovate, almost round, membranous with dark brown stripes. Receptacle convex, glabrous or hairy. Hair breaks off easily. Outer flowers in a basket are pistillate, including 17-19 pieces. Disc flowers are bisexual, 65-70 in number. Hemicarps obovate about 1.5 mm long. Photo by Vyacheslav Petukhin from the site "Nature of Baikal" |
  Wormwood lactiflora- A. lactiflora wall.
Homeland - Western China. Perennial herbaceous plant up to 100 cm tall with reddish-brown stems and openwork dark green glossy leaves. Flower baskets are small, white, collected in dense racemose inflorescences. Blooms in August. Prefers moist peaty soils and a sunny position. Looks great in flower beds landscape style and in the background of the mixborder along with beautiful flowering perennials. In culture since 1828. Photo on the left EDSR.
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 Sagebrush common variety"Zhanlim"- Artemisia vulgaris "Janlim" ("Oriental Limelight") Frost-resistant perennial. Zone: 4-9. The correct name for this variety is "Janlim", but commercial firms distribute it under the brand name "Oriental Limelight". The variety is notable for its yellow-green, beautifully dissected leaves. At a young age, the leaves cover the spots almost completely, and on more mature green background becomes more noticeable. Coloring remains until late autumn. The growth pattern is upright. The leaves release fragrance when rubbed. Tiny white flowers that appear at the ends of the stems in summer have no decorative value. Grows best in poor to moderately fertile soils in moderately moist to dry soils in full sun. Good drainage is a must. From dampness, the plant rots. On excessively fertile soils and in the shade and partial shade, the stems lie down. This variety is less aggressive than the original species. If the leafiness of the stems decreases, the plants can be trimmed and they will grow again. The colorful yellow-green foliage contrasts well with other plants in herb gardens and borders. An indispensable plant for areas with poor and dry soils. Photo by Anna Petrovicheva |
 Wormwood annual - A. annua L.
Homeland - the south of the European part of Russia, Crimea, Transcaucasia, the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, China, Japan. An annual herbaceous plant that forms pyramidal bushes up to 150 cm tall. The leaves are finely dissected, dark green, fragrant when rubbed. The flowers are inconspicuous, have no decorative value. Good for haircut. In culture since 1741. If you sow the seeds at an interval of 50 cm, you will get dense thickets that resemble a hedge from conifers shrubs. The showy pale green foliage makes a great natural backdrop for the vibrant blooms of the annuals. Photograph by Kirill Tkachenko |
 Wormwood pontic- A. pontica L.
Distributed throughout Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and Central Asia. It settles in dry areas in the forest-steppe and steppe zones. Wormwood Pontic has a creeping rhizome, the stems are thin, strong, up to 1 m long, densely leafy. The leaves are oval, twice or thrice pinnatisected, all stem-like, the lower ones with a petiole, the rest are sessile, gray-green above, and almost white below, felty. Baskets are almost spherical, small, drooping, in a narrow paniculate inflorescence, painted whitish-yellow. Blooms in August 30-35 days. Fruiting. In culture since the 16th century. Winters without shelter. Good for molding. In GBS, Moscow, the seeds were collected in 1948 in Krasnodar Territory, on the slope of the railway Vegetates from IV to X. Blossoms in IX. The seeds do not ripen. Vye. 70 cm. Flowering is annual and plentiful. Reproduction is vegetative. Decorative, spicy. |
  Wormwood rutolistnaya - Artemisia rutifolia Steph. ex Spreng. = A. turczaninoviana Bess.
Homeland - regions of Siberia and the Far East, Central and Central Asia. Mountain steppes, rocky slopes, talus. Semi-shrub 20-80 cm tall. Lignified perennial stems are strongly branched and covered with brownish-gray cracked bark, together with annual shoots form a rounded bush. Annual shoots are greyish-silky with pressed hairs. Petiole leaves without lobules at the base of the petiole, pubescent on both sides. The plate is round or reniform, 0.6-2 cm long. and 0.8-3 cm wide. twice pinnately or twice ternarily dissected into 3-5 lobes. The latter, in turn, are triply or pinnatifid. Terminal lobules linearly oblong, 2-15 mm long. and 0.5-1.5 mm wide. Baskets hemispherical 3.5-5 mm in diameter. rejected or drooping in a racemose or paniculate inflorescence. Involucral leaflets are hairy, outer ones are oblong. Receptacle glabrous or with hairs. Marginal flowers are pistillate, there are 5-15 of them, median flowers are bisexual, including 12-28. Achenes oblong-prismatic, angular-ribbed. Photo Ovchinnikov Yury |
| Of the other polynyas, medium-sized ones are interesting. n. armenian(A. armeniaca, syn. A. "Canescens") with openwork bluish-gray foliage
Longhorn. perennial. In GBS, Moscow, seeds were obtained in 1961 from a bot. garden of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR. Vegetates from IV to X. Blooms from VII to VIII. Seeds in X. High. 80 cm Blooms in the 3rd year. The culture is unstable. Also in GBS Moscow tested: A. austriaca Jacq. - P. Austrian . Krsch. pl. Living plants were collected in 1951 in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, on the floodplain terrace of the river. Ok, on the sand. Vegetates from IV to X. Blossoms annually in VIII-IX. Seeds do not always ripen in IX-X. High 72 cm. winter sowing seedlings appear in spring. It grows strongly due to underground shoots. essential oil, decorative. A. dracunculus L.- P. tarragon . Krsch. pl. Living plants were collected in 1965 in the Issyk-Kul basin, near the village. Pokrovka, on the spurs of the ridge. Terskey-Alatau, in the steppe. Vegetates from IV to early X. Blooms from late VII to early IX. Doesn't bear fruit. High 1.5 m
A. koizumii Nakai- P. Koizumi . Short text pl. The seeds were collected in 1953 near Korsakov, Sakhalin Region, to the south. slope by the sea. Vegetates from IV to X. Blossoms in IX. Seeds in XI. High 1.4 m A. latifolia Ledeb.- P. broadleaf. Longhorn. pl. Live plants collected in 1951 f. in the Voronezh region, on the steppe plateau. Vegetates from IV to X. Blooms in VIII. Seeds in X. Flowering and fruiting are not always abundant. High 50-85 cm. Vegetative reproduction. Requires well-fertilized soil with the addition of lime. A. littoricola kitam.- P. coastal . Longhorn. sod pl. The seeds were collected in 1963 in a bot. Garden of the Far Eastern Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Vegetates from IV to X. Blossoms in IX. High 1.5 m. When podzimnem sowing shoots appear in IV. A. opulenta pamp.- P. lush . Longhorn. pl. Seeds were collected in 1953 in the Sakhalin region, in bushes near the river. Vegetates from IV to X. Blossoms from VIII for about 2 months. The seeds do not ripen. High 1.9 m. When sown before winter, it blooms in the 1st year, in IX. Reproduction is vegetative.
A. persica Boiss.- P. persian . PC. Seeds were collected in 1950 in the KirgSSR, near the city of Jalalabad, at the top. 2400 m a.s.l. y. m. There is a reproduction of this sample. Vegetates from IV to X. Blossoms in VII. Seeds in VIII-IX. Flowering and fruiting are plentiful. High 80 cm decorative, aromatic. A. rubripes Nakai- P. krasnochereshkovaya . Longhorn. sod pl. Living plants were collected in 1953 at st. Oceanic, in a broad-leaved forest. Vegetates from IV to the end of X. Blossoms in IX-X, more than 1.5 months. The seeds do not ripen. High 2.5 m. When podzimnem sowing blooms in the 1st year in X. Vegetative reproduction. A. rupestris L.- P. rocky . Wintergreen PC. Seeds were collected in 1964 in Int. Tien Shan, on the right bank of the river. Sa-ryjaz, to the top. 3000 m asl y. m.; living plants collected in 1964 in the Inside. Tien Shan, on the saline lakeside plain in the south. coast of the lake Chatyrkel. Blooms in VI-VII. First arr. does not bear fruit, the 2nd bears fruit in VIII. High 30 cm. Reproduction is seed. When podzimnem sowing shoots appear in the spring. Blooms in the 2nd year. The culture is unstable. Recommended for small rocky hills.
A. santolinifolia Turkish. ex Bess.- P. santolinofolia . Wintergreen PC. Seeds were collected in 1960 in Int. Tien Shan, in the valleys of the Irtash and Chon-Kzyl-Su rivers. Blooms from the end of VIII to X. High. 0.8-1 m. Reproduction is seed. Winter sowing is recommended. Gives abundant self-seeding. Blooms in the 2nd year. Characterized by high vitality. The diameter of the trunk in the lower part is up to 3 cm. A. selengensis Turkish. ex Bess.- P. selenginskaya . Longhorn. sod pl. Living plants were collected in 1952 at Gornota-ezhnaya station, on wet sands. Vegetates from IV to the end of X. Blooms in X (sometimes only buds). The seeds do not ripen. High 2.5 m. Vegetative reproduction. A. sericea Web. ex Stechm.- P. silky . Longhorn. pl. The seeds were collected in 1954 in the Stolby plant; living plants were collected in 1951 in the Voronezh region, on a steppe plateau. Vegetates from IV to IX. Blooms in IX. The seeds do not ripen. High up to 75 cm. Vegetative reproduction. decorative.
A.stenophylla kitam. - P. angustifolia . Longhorn. sod pl. Seeds were collected in 1955 in Primorsky kr., near the village. Stone-Fisherman, on a gravelly slope. Vegetates from IV to the end of X. Blossoms at the end of IX - beginning of X. Does not bear fruit. High 75 cm. Vegetative reproduction. decorative. A. stolonifera (Maxim.) Kom.- P. shoot-bearing . Longhorn. sod pl. Living plants were collected in 1952 at st. Ocean, in oak forest. Vegetates from IV to the end of X. Blooms in X,. flowering is interrupted by frost. The seeds do not ripen. High 1.5 m. Vegetative reproduction. A.umbrosa Turkish. ex DC.- P. shadow . Longhorn. sod pl. Living plants were collected in 1953 at the Gornotayezhnaya station, along dry slopes. Vegetates from IV to the end of X. Blooms in X. Seeds do not ripen. High 2.7 m. Vegetative reproduction. Characterized by high vitality. |
Artemisia austriaca 
Artemisia dracunculus 
Artemisia santolinifolia 
Artemisia stolonifera
Artemisia lactiflora "Guizho"
Photo by Andrey Ganov
Location and soil: undemanding to the soil, extremely drought-resistant and winter-hardy. The main success factor for silver-leaved species is poor, well-drained, neutral soils and a sunny location. Species with green foliage will suit more fertile and moist soils, light shading is possible. With high soil moisture, in culture, with frequent watering, sagebrush can lose their wonderful pubescence, become greener and lose their attractiveness.
When planting, it is a good idea to add sand to the planting hole so that the soil is looser. Peat, especially acidic, is better not to use for this, after all, most types of wormwood grow in semi-deserts and deserts, and some species simply on carbonate soils.
For successful wintering, polynyas, especially undersized ones, need good drainage. Wormwood is unpretentious, grows well and develops on poor, but loose soils. Low-growing species can be planted on the southern exposures of hills, on terraces and retaining walls, in crevices between stones.
Artemisia arborescense
Photo by Marina Shimanskaya
Care: watering is very rare only in extreme heat. The rapid growth of bushes of some species requires regular pruning of rhizomes.or planting in containers. Flowering of wormwood can hardly be called decorative. In some cases, it is even recommended to remove numerous flower stalks that cover the entire plant. This is more often the case for undersized species. Flowering of tall species does not cause negative emotions
Reproduction: seeds, perennial species by dividing the bush and segments of rhizomes, and semi-shrub species - also cuttings. Seeds are sown in a semi-warm greenhouse in April. Seedlings dive into 7-9 cm pots of 1-3 pieces.
Artemisia are well cut from May to the end of July. The main thing is that the roots form before the cold weather. Both young and mature shoots, 7-10 cm high, are used for cuttings. Moreover, all parts of the stem are used. Rooted in beds with loose sandy soil and only on next year cuttings are planted on permanent place. Cuttings do not need shading or frequent watering.
Usage: most species are used as decorative foliage in mixed landings, dry bouquets, Steller's wormwood - mainly in borders.
Artemisia palmeri
Photo by Marina Shimanskaya
In ornamental horticulture, sagebrush is used mainly because of the silvery carved leaves, which, in combination with blue, purple and white flowers, give airiness to the composition. These plants are decorative throughout the summer. Tall species are planted in flower beds to mitigate sharp, bright colors, which simply do not fit without gray. For this, long-rhizome species can be used, since they do not form dense thickets, but freely germinate between other plants without oppressing them.
Artemisia respond well to a haircut, so compositions of various heights can be formed from them. Wormwood goes well with many plants. You just need to choose the right combinations.
Wormwood can grow in one place for many years. But long-rhizomatous or rhizomatous sprout species "crawl" to a neighboring place. This must be taken into account when including polynyas in flower beds. Therefore, compositions without clear boundaries are more suitable for them.
Artemesia maritima "Sea Wormwood"
Photograph by Kirill Tkachenko
Wormwood can serve as an excellent background for almost any sun-loving plants. A blue fountain of perennial flax soaring up from a group of p tarragon(A. stolonifera), ceases to look rustic and becomes aristocratic and refined. Ordinary asters, translucent through wormwood louis(A. ludoviciana), seem mysterious, especially in light twilight. And it can be the center of the composition. And silver lace Artemisia Schmidt(A. schmidtiana), planted in the form of wings on the edge of the lawn or along the path, will not leave anyone indifferent. Schmidt's dwarf wormwood, surrounded by stonecrops or juveniles, will decorate a low flower garden. She looks great in rock gardens against the background of stones. If the slide is small, you can plant a tiny wormwood caucasian(A. caucasica), and if large, then creeping Steller's Artemisia(A. stelleriana). In the mixborder wormwood Pursha(A. pursha). If you are not too lazy and pinch the growth point at the desired height (while leaving 3-5-7 shoots, and removing the rest), it will form enough short term funny spherical "bouquets" from side shoots. On the large area gorgeous wormwood medicinal(A. abrotanum), or god tree. Using a pinch, it is very easy to form graceful curly "trees" up to 1.5 m tall from this shrub.
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Perfectly combined with roses of various shades from white to red. Combinations of wormwood with red-leaved or golden forms of plants are interesting: Thunberg's barberry, purple leafy bergenia, small-flowered "Palace Purple", etc. Ornamental cereals are very appropriate in these plantings.
 Artemisia umbelliformis (Artemisia laxa) Photo EDSR. |
 Artemisia schmidtiana "Silver Mound" Photo EDSR. |
 Artemisia grossgeimii Photo by Olga Bondareva |
 Artemisia frigida Photo Kravchenko Kirill |
 Artemisia hololeuca Photo Kravchenko Kirill |
 Artemisia sericea Photo Kravchenko Kirill |
article materials used:
Nina Protasova "What does wormwood smell like" // "Gardener" - 2009 - No. 1
is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Artemisia stelleriana Bess. As for the name of the Steller's wormwood plant itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of wormwood steller
Steller's wormwood is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which will fluctuate between fifteen and fifty-five centimeters. The whole plant will be whitish and hairy. Steller's rhizome will be creeping and not thick, and its stem is single, but there may be two or three such stems, while the stem will be quite thick and this value will be about three to five millimeters. The baskets of this plant will be goblet, their length will be about five to eight millimeters, and the width will be equal to four to six millimeters, such baskets will be located in a more or less dense spike-shaped inflorescence. The marginal flowers of sagebrush steller will be pistillate, there are only about sixteen of them, the corolla will be bare and tubular-conical. The length of the achenes of this plant is three to four millimeters, and the width will not reach even half a millimeter, while such seeds will be painted in dark brown tones.Steller's wormwood blooms in August. AT natural conditions this plant is found on the territory of all regions of the Far East, with the exception of only the Okhotsk region and the east of the Amur region. For growth, this plant prefers river banks, sea sandy pebble coasts, as well as gravelly slopes near the sea.
Description of the medicinal properties of wormwood steller
Steller's wormwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while with therapeutic purpose it is recommended to use seeds, shoots and roots of this plant. The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of sesquiterpenoids in the composition of this plant.It should be noted that in the course of experimental studies it was found that this plant is endowed with a very effective choleretic effect. As for traditional medicine, Steller's wormwood is quite widespread here. ethnoscience recommends the use of an infusion prepared on the basis of seeds, roots and shoots of this plant. Such a healing agent is recommended for use in flatulence, respiratory infections, various diseases of the stomach, and is also used as a tonic and sedative.
A decoction prepared on the basis of shoots, roots and seeds of Steller's wormwood is indicated for use in gout, but this remedy is used topically for ulcers, and besides, it is also used as a hemostatic agent.
It should be noted that Steller's wormwood is also an ornamental plant.
In case of irritability, it is recommended to use very effective remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take one tablespoon of chopped dry herb sagebrush steller per three hundred milliliters of boiling water. The resulting healing mixture should be left to infuse for about three to four hours, and then this mixture is recommended to be filtered very carefully. Take the resulting healing agent based on Steller's wormwood three times a day, regardless of the meal, one-third or one-fourth of a glass. It is important to note that in order to ensure the greatest effectiveness when taking this remedy, you should follow the rules for taking it and all the rules of preparation.
