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Sick, mostly dead Artemesia

jubilee2022jubilee2022 Posts: 4
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A few days ago I ordered an Artemesia Silver Mound from Gardening Express. The attached pictures show what arrived.  I’ve got my money back but I wonder if there is any way to make this baby healthy.  I’m trying to dry it out so I can feed it, keeping it in the sun and brining it in at night, but I wonder if this is a lost cause.  Can this sickly thing be brought back to health?

Thanks for any advice. 


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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I'm glad you got your money back @jubilee2022 , that is a very sick plant.

     l am not sure whether it will truly recover, but you could try taking cuttings. It may be late in the season but you don't have much to lose to be honest.

    Whereabouts are you in the UK? (a general location will do).
      It might be worth planting it out if the soil is still warm and not waterlogged. 

  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Don't feed it at this time of year (assuming you're in the UK/northern hemisphere). They often look pretty bedraggled at this time of year and through the winter. The last month or so has been pretty wet and it's probably been outside on the nursery. Letting it dry out a bit is a good idea, and then put it somewhere out of the worst of the rain (against a wall under the eaves for example). It doesn't need to be indoors.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    It's not dead, I agree with JennyJ's advice


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I have several in the garden that look similar - it's what they look like at this time of year.
    If you can give it a good drink - no feed as it's not growing - then leave it outside somewhere sheltered from the worst of the winter weather where it won't get soaked, then by LATE spring you should see some tiny new green growth on the lower stems.
    You can cut above that green growth to tidy it up.
    Once we get some warm weather they start to grow very fast.
    One of mine gets to about 3ft across by mid-summer. In the spring it's just a few dead looking branches about 6" long.

    Billericay - Essex

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