This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. It is particular about its soil conditions, with a strong preference for clay, alkaline soils, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil, and will often die in standing water.
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This plant does best in full sun to partial shade.
Deer and rabbit resistant, 'Silver Brocade' is also extremely hardy, tolerating both freezing temps and excess humidity. A popular foliage plant with a mounding habit, use it to offset your favorite flowering plants. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. 'Silver Brocade' Artemesia, commonly known as Dusty Miller or Wormwood, boasts fabulous texture and vigorous growth. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. Silver Brocade Artemesia will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. Silver Brocade Artemesia is recommended for the following landscape applications It has no significant negative characteristics. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. Proven Accents Sweet Caroline Bewitched After Midnight Sweet Potato Vine Ipomoea batatas. Angelface Perfectly Pink Summer Snapdragon Angelonia hybrid. This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Proven Accents Silver Bullet Wormwood Artemisia stelleriana. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage. Silver Brocade Artemesia is a dense herbaceous perennial with a mounded form.
Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant. Silver Brocade Artemesia's attractive deeply cut ferny compound leaves emerge silver in spring, turning silvery blue in color throughout the season. This selection, with its vigorous growth and a mounded habit, is an amazing addition to garden beds, borders and containers silvery-blue ferny foliage adds a lovely, fine texture to landscapes low maintenance and drought tolerant once established