This is a warning to NOT buy this plant this year at your local Kmart, Walmart, Lowes...
I saw this 'new' Artemisia in the local retailer last year, bought it in a small quart size and planted it. It starts out small and varagated but quickly grew into a 4 foot high ugly bush with out any varigation. The thing looked like a weed. We planted it in a landscaped area with landscaping fabric with multch on top of it. After the winter I planned on digging it up and getting rid of it but the plant clearly had a mind of it's own. Early in the spring it started growing. Not only growing from the hole in the fabric but growing in a 5 foot by 5 foot area underneath the fabric. The fabric lifted up so high that the multch fell off in that area and the plants would not be detered even though it was covered. Nothing was stopping this thing from literally taking over. A quart size plant planted last year is now a gigantic bed of plants. To further add insult to injury we tried digging it up and it is virtually impoosible to dig up. The roots are as fragile as wet spagetti and there is thousands of roots and shoots. The root base of the plant was 3 foot by 3 foot by 2 foot mass of most roots and some dirt. We tried to get all the shoots and things out of the ground but that is impossible so only time will tell what will happen next. We had to use fill dirt to fill the hole left from the roots. WHAT A MESS!
I saw this for sale in a garden center this year and felt sorry for anyone buying it and not know what they are getting into. If you want a picture of the young plant go here:
If you buy it DO NOT put it anywhere but a planter box other wise it will take over and crowd out and kill everything else around it.
Things the garden centers don't tell you that I thought I would pass along.