Sweet Annie

$4.90

FAMILY: ASTERACAEAE
GENUS: Artemisia SPECIES: annua

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Description

Heritage Status: New Zealand
Number of Seeds: 100

Description: HERB-medicinal. Annual. Sweet Annie is a smallish plant of the wormwood family that grows to a straggly 1m tall, but not wide. It has silver leaves like wormwood and has a wonderful strong sweet aromatic scent. It has many medicinal uses and contains artemisian, which is best used as whole plant rather separated out. It likes the heat and Mediterranean type situations.

Planting Instructions: Scatter seed on surface of fine seed raising mix with no weed seed and press into surface, in late Spring. Do not cover, keep moist, but not too wet. Prick out when second leaves appear and transplant when 5cm high into garden at 30cm diagonal spacings.