{"id":2771,"date":"2012-03-16T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2012-02-13T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:33:16","slug":"powis-castle-artemisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/03\/16\/powis-castle-artemisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Powis Castle Artemisia Is Exceptional"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2773\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Artemisia-Powis.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2773\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2773\" title=\"Artemisia 'Powis\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Artemisia-Powis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Artemisia-Powis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Artemisia-Powis-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Artemisia-Powis.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Powis Castle&#39; Artemisia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most artemisias (aka \u201cwormwood\u201d) can not cope with the summer heat and humidity in the mid-South. Their silvery foliage tends to burn out (some say \u201cmelt out\u201d) in mid to late summer. &#8216;Powis Castle&#8217; artemisia is truly\u00a0the exception. Powis Castle\u00a0is likely a hybrid (<em>Artemisia arborescens<\/em> x <em>A. absinthium<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Powis Castle is a bushy, woody-based perennial or subshrub which forms a 2-3 foot high and wide\u00a0mound. Powis Castle rarely flowers.\u00a0Its\u00a0finely divided\u00a0foliage is\u00a0evergreen in most gardens\u00a0in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7).\u00a0\u00a0The silvery\u00a0foliage creates an excellent contrast with green and other colorful\u00a0leafy plants in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Artemisias\u00a0are best planted in well drained soil\u00a0and\u00a0in full sun. They tend to\u00a0grow poorly in soggy winter soils. No soil fertilizing is generally necessary. Diseases and insect problems are of little consequence.<\/p>\n<p>Older plants tend to run randomly because of their rhizomatous root system. Do not cutback artemisias in the fall. Instead, treat them as hardy mums or asters and wait until new spring growth appears before pruning back. Tidy up the garden bed to recapture a fresh new foliage look.<\/p>\n<p>Its aromatic foliage is cut and utilized in creating fresh herbal wreaths and\u00a0in potpourri.\u00a0During medieval times wormwood was a popular remedy for whatever ailed you from gout, kidney stones, scurvy and liver problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most artemisias (aka \u201cwormwood\u201d) can not cope with the summer heat and humidity in the mid-South. Their silvery foliage tends to burn out (some say \u201cmelt out\u201d) in mid to late summer. &#8216;Powis Castle&#8217; artemisia is truly\u00a0the exception. Powis Castle\u00a0is likely a hybrid (Artemisia arborescens x A. absinthium Powis Castle is a bushy, woody-based perennial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[854,778,674,806,665,774,625,202,601,777,630,646,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}