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I love silver mound. I wanted it for so long, but when I was married to my ex he said, "No way, it never keeps that nice mounding shape" so for years I didn't have it. When we split up it was the first thing I got! My solution to the shape issue is when it gets big and floppy in mid-summer, I cut it back almost to the ground and it gives me a great shape again for fall!
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Mel, that is so beautiful. My mom always had several patches of Silver Mound and it fascinated my kids to be able to "pet" it. I think she divided hers every few years as it would begin to get ratty looking in the center.
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I wish I could properly describe the feeling of this Artemesia. It's so soft and moderately springy. When I rub the mound, I take the palm of my hand rounded against the top of the plant and lightly rub it back and forth. (Kind of as you would do to a little boy's head after they get their "summer cut". ) The plant springs right back to it's original shapely mound. It does tend to get tall and lanky, losing it's shape, in the summer. That's why Netty and I cut it back, to get a second new mound in the same garden year.
Tammy, I found all the scientific information on wikipedia.org (I can't post the link). It is what some call wormwood. The scientific name is Artemisia schmidtiana.
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When we split up it was the first thing I got! ![[thumb]](graemlins/thumb.gif)
My solution to the shape issue is when it gets big and floppy in mid-summer, I cut it back almost to the ground and it gives me a great shape again for fall! ![[clappy]](graemlins/claps.gif)
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I think she divided hers every few years as it would begin to get ratty looking in the center.
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) The plant springs right back to it's original shapely mound. It does tend to get tall and lanky, losing it's shape, in the summer. That's why Netty and I cut it back, to get a second new mound in the same garden year. 
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