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It was first recorded as being cultivated by the ancient Greeks for medicinal purposes; although most of its medicinal uses have been discredited, tansy is still a component of some medicines and is listed by the United States Pharmacopeia as a treatment for fevers, feverish colds, and jaundice.

Growing Instructions: Planting tansy is easy and requires little effort on your part. Tansy will want a very sunny location, and only real soil requirement is that it not be too damp. Take care not to over water; only really supplementing water once the top few inches of soil has dried.

Tansy is an eager spreader wherever it is grown, but it is such an aggressive reseeder in some climates that it is listed as a noxious weed. Growing tansy is prohibited in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of the state of Washington, as well as the Alberta and British Columbia provinces in Canada. Your email address will not be published. Tansy can grow to a height of cm in dry, stony soil and a sunny site, Tansy will produce a beautiful display of finely divided compound leaves which are a rich green, and clusters of bright yellow button-like flowers held above on long stems in late summer July-Sept.

Tansy is also attractive to bees and butterflies as it is a good source of nectar, so is a welcome addition in the herbaceous border as well as the herb garden. Tansy is an easy-going plant that thrives, in most positions except where very wet it likes good drainage, it makes an excellent container plant when grown in a large pot and kept well-watered in summer.

It can self-seed or be divided in late Spring or Autumn it can spread quite vigorously but can be controlled by pulling up unwanted rhizomes. Tansy has a strong aromatic flavour, similar to Rosemary and therefore can be used with meat like rosemary.

The leaves can also be stewed with rhubarb or used to flavour sausages, omlettes, or stuffing. Many consider Tansy to be useful as a natural insect repellent, the leaves and flowers can be dried and hung in bouquets to ward flies out of the kitchen and moths out of the clothes cupboard! Can also be used in a pot-pourri for the same purpose.

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