Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 Dear Joan and Joannie, thank you for the replies on the above. I shamelessly ask you experienced growers and appreciate your feedback. I want to grow some vines up trellis's we have put up on the side of the carport. I saw some of the Feathery Wormwood at the Nursery and wondered if I shuld get it....Love Penny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 I'm back for a bit after a bunch of crashing the last few hours...crashing and deleting...ugh,,, anyway..what Joan found out about Artemesia Powis Castle is pretty much what I found, too..that it is a likely hybrid of those two species. A. absinthium grows up here and is the common Wormwood, long used as a " pesticide " for all sorts of things...active ingredient in absinthe....not a native American wormwood, but has naturalized itself inthe northeastern USA. Originally from Europe. A. arborescence is a woodier species, from more southern regions around the Mediterranean. Chemist Rob Pappas and aromatherapist Sylla Sheppard-Hanger report that this species has the highest amount of chamazulene of any plant....but that is another story..their somewhat technical article can be found here: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.atlanticinstitute.com/artemisia.pdf +artemesia+absinthium+arborescens & hl=en in text form or here as a PDF file www.atlanticinstitute.com/artemisia.pdf So, anyway...all artemesias have some of the same properties, especially as to their anti-parasite, pesticide, etc. properties. But the specific properties this hybrid has...I am really not sure... and the other thing..as I surfed the web looking for picture s of this plant, I found about 10...none of them looking even to be the same species...some looked just like my Artemesia absinthium, and others looking more needle leafed almost, like Southernwood, A. abronatum. SO..you just never know what you got....but all wormwoods do have similar properties, as I said...this one needs more research...but look at A. absinthium and A. arborescens properties to start. And check out one of the above 2 links...Joanie >I'm not Joanie, as you know <g> BUT in one of my books it says >Artemesia Powis Castle is " probably " a hybrid of A. absinthium >(wormwood) and A. arborescens (tree wormwood). The book also says there >are 300 species of artemesia (which also includes tarragon, >southernwood, sweet wormwood (sweet annie). There is no mention of >American Wormwood. Were you looking for growing experience or medicinal >use experience? ...hope this helps some...............Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2001 Report Share Posted January 31, 2001 oh, to answer THIS question... > I saw some of the Feathery Wormwood at the Nursery and wondered if I >shuld get it....Love Penny If it were me... if I had lots of room to grow things I would..it is ornamental, but not without medicinal qualities. I like to collect specimens of all the plants that i can.... if i had little room, and was more interested in medicinal values..than in ornamental value, I would seek out either of the parent species instead, Artemesia absinthium or A. arborescens..as you are more certain of what you are getting. I am me..and I would get one of this and one of the others.... ;-) Joanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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