Re: Artemesia 'Oriental Limelight'

In a message dated 3/23/02 7:16:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
Mclainakag@aol.com writes:

<< 
 Marge:  Okay - this is the plant that I bought last year and yes, it has 
 reproduced well via root runners but not nearly as well as my friend's in 
 Baton Rouge.  She purchased this plant about the same time I did - her's has 
 spread x8.   >>

To add more to Marge's research here is what I found when I repotted the two 
plants I recently purchased.

I knocked them out of the pots as they seemed filled with roots. The plants 
had runners, long stolons, encircling the lower parts of the 4 inch pots plus 
a few already poking through the surface.

This is a strongly stoloniferous plant.  I replanted in larger nursery pots 
and will use in containers, I think.

When there is a plant patent pending and a name has been invented, the tag 
nearly always omits the species. If using as an annual in containers, I 
suppose that is of no consequence but I think of artemesias as perennials.  

There are places for these thugs.  I have A. ludoviciana aka as Silver King 
and Silver Queen.  This plant will grow in places dry and infertile such as 
roof overhangs and rocky gravelly areas.  It is only when put into the garden 
that it expands so quickly.  Maybe we will hear more of Oriental Limelight as 
the growing season progresses.

It is a pretty plant and I see it selling easily.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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