2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The bitter herb Wormwood is not a rare guest in poetry. It is associated with the bitterness of unrequited love, "bitter" bread in a foreign land. Bunches of dry wormwood or wreaths woven from its twigs drive out evil mythical spirits, and quite real pests that penetrate a person's dwelling and try to spoil his life at least a little. But wormwood is famous not only for its bitterness. Its decorative leaves will decorate a summer cottage flower garden, simultaneously protecting it from evil otherworldly forces and annoying earthly diseases
Wormwood in the verses of Russian poetesses
No matter how strong a woman may seem, she wants to lean on a strong male shoulder. For him, a woman is ready to go through "evil nights", go "to the ends of the world" and even "into the fire." But a man erected on a pedestal often turns out to be not "Croesus", but "bankrupt", like Anastasia Tsvetaeva's. And then every breath and sip is filled with wormwood bitterness.
Anna Akhmatova imparts the smell of wormwood to bread in a foreign land, challenging with her poems those who left their homeland in a difficult hour, leaving it "at the mercy of enemies." She compares them to prisoners or sick people. The bread eaten by the exiles in a foreign land is filled with the bitterness of wormwood.
Artemisia means healthy
Bitterness is not only disappointment. The Latin botanical name for Artemisia means healthy. Even the ancients noticed that bitter herbs in moderation help a person fight diseases. We have already discussed the healing properties of wormwood in the article "Wormwood is a woman's herb." Today I want to look at the plant from different angles.
Decorative leaf culture
Silver-gray pinnate leaves of wormwood will become an excellent participant in the flower garden, decorating it from early spring until the very frost and filling the air with a unique aroma of wormwood. Although paniculate or racemose inflorescences of wormwood, collected from small white or yellow flowers, are considered undecorative, in my opinion, they harmoniously fit into the colors of golden autumn. And even in winter, inflorescences peeking out of the snowdrifts continue the triumph of life.
Varieties of wormwood
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Artemisia (Artemisia arborescens) is a deciduous tall (up to 180 cm tall) shrub with pinnately dissected pubescent leaves, with a silvery tint. Inflorescence panicles are collected from round baskets of yellow flowers. It prefers to grow in the seaside, on rocky soils.
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Wormwood (Artemisia ludoviciana) - the decorativeness of the silvery leaves of this herbaceous tall (up to 100 cm tall) beauty in summer and autumn is complemented by panicle inflorescences collected from baskets of yellow flowers. Some varieties have silvery-gray leaves, and the leaf shape can be linear to lanceolate.
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Wormwood felt (Artemisia lanata) is a dwarf (up to 15 cm tall) semi-shrub plant with cluster inflorescences collected from yellow flower baskets and silvery-green pinnately dissected leaves.
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Tarragon wormwood (Artemisia dracunculus) or Tarragon - used as a medicinal and aromatic crop. Although in nature it is a herbaceous perennial, in culture it is more often grown as an annual plant. Bushes 60-80 cm high are covered with dark fragrant leaves.
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Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) - the inspirer of poetesses with pale green bitter leaves is a deciduous shrub 80-90 cm high.
Growing
The places are sunny or partial shade.
Drought resistant, frost and heat resistant.
When grown on poor soils, organic matter is introduced during planting, and in the spring, once a month, watering is combined with mineral feeding.
Pruning is required only for wormwood. This is done at the end of winter at a height of 15 cm from the surface of the earth.
Propagated by seeds, root suckers, dividing bushes.
The appearance is maintained by removing damaged shoots and wilted inflorescences.
Although wormwood with its aroma repels many pests of gardens and vegetable gardens, its leaves can be affected by rust.
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