MeadowSweet Herbs & Flowers Nursery and Herb Education Centre is now closed for orders from 16 December 2025 until mid-January 2026 while I take a short festive break.
Thank you for your continued support of my small, home-based nursery throughout the past year. I look forward to helping you grow plants for your kitchen, garden, and herbal home remedies cupboard when I reopen in the new year.
Wishing you a peaceful and nourishing festive season.
Minette
Out of Stock
Wormwood
$9.50
Wormwood is a PERENNIAL growing to 1m with grey-green aromatic feathery leaves.
Prefers well-drained soil in a full sun or semi-shaded position. Can tolerate drought.
Occasionaly used as a flavouring, the plant is mostly used medicinally.
Leaves are sometimes used as flavouring, but caution is advised.
Wormwood is very bitter and has a long history of medicinal use. It is used to clear intestinal parasites and as a remedy for liver and gallbladder problems. It improves digestion.
Use under medicical supervision.
It is strongly repellant and used as a strewing herb or in sachets in linen closets. An infusion is said to repel slugs and snails.
