Problems growing feverfew

[Conrad Richter]

AC <alanchal at netcomuk.co.uk> writes:

> Timothy & Gabrielle Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > This is my first posting to this newsgroup - I hope my topic is
> > appropriate.
> > 
> > For the second year in a row, I have brought my potted feverfew plant
> > indoors for the winter (New Jersey) and it is once again dying.  It is
> > still getting strong southern exposure.  Can anyone suggest what might
> > be going wrong with it?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> > 
> > Gabrielle
> =====
> I am located in North Wales UK but also have lived in N England UK; in
> both places feverfew grows outdoors all-year-round and self-seeds
> without any problem. Sometimes to the extent of being a weed.It might be
> classified as a perennial but is best grown as an annual.
> BTW I assume we are writing about: Tanacetum parthenium?
> -- 
> Alan Challoner MA(Phil.) MChS
> libran at netcomuk.co.uk
> 

I agree that feverfew is best grown as an annual.  Our research suggests
that physiological age is important: as the plant ages (1+ years) it is 
no longer able to produce the active parthenolides in high quantity. 
First year plants seem to be much more potent. 

Conrad Richter

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