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Artemisia schmidtiana 'Silver Mound'

I actually have mine planted in the shade and it does just fine, but you have to give it a nice haircut when it starts to get a part:)

Tends to be short - living for me and become ugly after the first year. Winters tend to kill it.

Just bending over and petting this plant is worth having it. It feels like the back of a bunny and is fun to have. Yes, it roots itself and makes babies, but you can share with others if you don't have room for them to spread. Yes, as noted by others, a serious rain shower will in fact give it a bald spot till it dries and fluffs back up. I do have some planted on a slight slope and those continually have the bald spots, so maybe thats not the best place for them. I still like it though. Susan

positive - grows well without much water

neg - dies if it happens to rain a lot.
neg - opens up in the middle to easily and then looks sick.

I love this one! I require guests to touch the soft foliage as they walk through the garden. I have found that if I let it get too large without dividing the plant, it makes a 'wreath' shape. Of course this is pretty neat, but I prefer to divide it so that it creates a nice carpet of silver. Give it a try if you haven't yet.

I have a patch of hard clay in a very hot, sunny spot in a "corner" in which my mailbox sits, next to both the road and my driveway. Nothing was able to grow there. Although it is technically part of my front yard, grass didn't even grow there.

I planted Artemisia there two years ago. It has done very well, and is quite lovely. It is perhaps 2 feet tall and has grown to surround the mailbox. I get a lot of questions and comments from people who would like to obtain one as well.

For difficult situations such as this, Artemisia is a great choice. I would never plant it in my garden, because I am quite sure it is more vigorous than my other plants! But it is perfect for this hot, sunny, dry, hard-clay, inhospitable corner of my front yard.

I have the Silver Mound and also love this plant. So soft and plush and smells wonderful when you touch it.

This is my first experience with this plant. I put it on a hot, sandy hill that I have planted with xeriscape perrenials. It's first season it did great, withstanding our 100 plus degree summers like a pro. This is it's second season and it's overrun the four foot square I allotted it and is taking over! I've pruned it twice and it continues to encroach on it's slower growing neighbors. I am considering digging it up.

Someone gave me a start of this plant 4-5 years ago. It started spreading by the roots and has been terribly invasive. I have been trying to kill it by applying Roundup, but have not been completely successful yet. I may have a particulary invasive variety, but my advice -- if you want artemesia in your garden, sink it in the ground in a pot to keep it where you put it!

I plant this between my miniature roses and I get tons of compliments. When I cut it back I just stick the cuttings in some vermeculite and in no time I have new plants. I love the silver color and mounding habit.

Lovely addition to the garden for its silvery, fine foliage. It needs some frequent attention, however, to keep it from opening up too much and losing its mounded habit. Shear flowers off (they're insignificant) to keep it looking nice. If it does start to open up, cut it down to the ground all the way and it will grow back to its original size fairly quickly with fresh, nicely formed growth.

I am fond of this plant and have a row of it growing in front of three round arborvitae shrubs with the spaces filled in by echinacea purpurea--a lovely combination. However, in my zone 4b garden's wet clay soil, it is not terribly winter hardy and sometimes fails to regrow after winter dieback. It always dies to the ground, and is very late reemerging in the spring. It forms compact mounds, never more than a couple feet in diameter, and frequently flowers if I don't trim it back.

The delicate feathery texture of this plant causes it to splay outward from the center when heavy rains beat down on it. It has a rapid outward (rather than upward) growth rate that necessitates trimming once a month. I intend to subdivide the beaten down plants into indoor pots where I will water them at their base.

Wow, I LOVE this plant. In the high desert plains of southern Idaho, it is a wonderous plant. Although too cold winters cut it back each year, regrowth is fast from undamaged old growth (roots and stems).

One year I cut it back to the ground, no problem, the next year I left the wood. No problem. This plant wants to live. I believe it should be planted away from dwellings and is flamable due to the nature of this plant and the oils it produces.

Requires little water to survive and given a weekly deep watering grows quickly to about 28". I have had the first plant now for 4 years.

I have never found any new plants from it and only propagate by division or pinning a branch to the ground.

I have never seen animals near it and purchased it to ward of mosquitos etc, which it does.

I rubbed some leaves on my skin with no adverse reactions hoping for a natural bug repellent. More investigation needed on this though.

I had this plant in an open garden setting and it spread about 3 square feet from a very small begininng plant. So I dug it up and had to redig as the little root pieces left continued to grow. I placed it in a hanging basket with some other plants that require the same care, onwe I don't even know what it is and the other is a sedum it seem happy here and I even took a small piece and placed it in a sponge frogs mouth it if is a neat contrast. I really with I had enough room to put it in an open setting but I don't want it to grow over my other plants. I was thinking about doing a corner of one of my gardens in the white maybe I'll stick it in there and it will be free to roam to the edge of that.

'Silver Mound' is a beautiful cultivar, but difficult to maintain in a normal garden setting because of its robust growth habit. In 9b it must be trimmed monthly to keep its shape and maintain a managable size and it tends to get very woody within a couple of years.

Better grown in a situation that allows it to reach its full potential. See the uploaded image for an example of it planted in an open space setting, on a drip irrigation system with no fertilizer or care.

This plant readily "makes babies" if planted in a well-drained area. I usually end up dividing the "mother" every year and passing the division on. It has grown as wide as 24" to 36", which is why I now divide it every year. It is great as an accent or contrast plant, but not so great as to "romp over" other fine perennials!