Absinthe Garden. Part 1. Buying Petite Wormwood , Roman Wormwood or Artemisia pontica.

As the growing season starting up here in the NorthEast, I’d thought I share some tips on planting an absinthe garden. I’ll start off with the hardest of the absinthe related plants to source in the USA - Artemisia pontica. This plant also goes by Roman Wormwood and Petite Wormwood. This plan it difficult to find either online or at garden centers. I know of two sources for the live plant:

http://www.perennialpleasures.net/2008-mail.html and http://www.gilbertiesherbs.com