Artemisia absinthium 'Lambrook Silver'

A first class perennial from the garden of Marjorie Fish, forming a clump of lacy, gently arching, silver leaves. A valuable component of any designers palette of high impact plants, providing sufficient interest and contrast without visual competition. Panicles of pale yellow, button-like flowers are borne in summer, when you tire of them a quick cut to ground will see it in fine form for the annum. Lower growing and more refined than the species which is found throughout Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. More graceful and less spreading than A. ‘Powis Castle’ but almost as indestructible and seems to be more clay tolerant. Easily grown in any well drained, sunny, lean soil. Likely to be short lived in areas with high summer humidity, a lifer everywhere else. Also the defining constituent of Absinthe.