Silver Brocade Artemisia – A Favorite Groundcover

Silver Brocade Artemisia by the Oak tree

Silver Brocade Artemisia might be a plant you don’t know. I hadn’t heard of it either till the day I bought it 5 years ago. I love the silver color and the texture. It boasts vigorous growth – which makes it a groundcover as far as I am concerned. Here it is under our oak tree where it is about 8 inches tall. It would be a bit taller if I didn’t trim it back hard in mid-summer, when stems begin to grow upright.  Silver Brocade needs lots of sun, and since it was planted at the same time as the slow growing oak tree, sun is what it gets.

Silver Brocade Artemisia apparently survives neglect, not that I would recommend that, but neglect is certainly what mine got. Its outside the fence and not close to a hose, so I have to admit we don’t water it much. It is also in an area that doesn’t get stomped on – that it would not tolerate.

It looks a lot like my Dusty Miller, which often comes back. But Dusty Miller is an annual, so it won’t spread and you can’t count on it to make it through a winter. Silver Brocade is a hardy perennial. It doesn’t have flowers, and it doesn’t need them. So pretty just as it is!

Silver Brocade Artemisia

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