Spring is making its presence felt with stunning flowers and magnificent foliage

A great groundcover plant, which can be a bit of a thug unless you manage it well, is artemesia. Also known as mugwort or sagebrush, artemesia are common UK garden plants and are entirely hardy. They are grown for their impressive foliage effect. The flower heads of artemesia are generally of little real interest but the plants do have many uses in the rockery or herbaceous border. Apart from the dwarf growing varieties both perennial and, also, evergreen species are best cut back hard to the ba