African Wormwood Plant – 1 Small Plant

Sold as 1 single small African Wormwood plant. African Wormwood (Artemisia afra) is also known as wild wormwood, African wormwood (Eng.); wilde-als (Afr.); umhlonyane (isiXhosa); mhlonyane (isiZulu); lengana (Tswana); zengana (Southern Sotho).

This soft aromatic shrub is one of the most popular medicinal plants in South Africa. It is a highly aromatic perennial shrub.

Growing African Wormwood plant

• Leave the plant in the plastic grow-bag until it becomes root-bound, then transplant into a bigger container or transplant into the garden.
• Wormwood is a tough plant, it can tolerate many different climatic types and poor soil. It is is often found on poor soil that is semi dry.
• In cooler areas it prefers full sun and in warmer areas it prefers some shade from the hot sun. In warmer areas it prefers a slightly richer soil and more water.
• It will not grow well in moist to wet soils.
• It can be successfully grown in containers.
• It needs full sun and heavy pruning in winter to encourage new lush growth in spring.