10x Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) Bareroot Plants - Organic
You are buying 10 organically grown Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) bareroot plants.
Organically and sustainably grown from self-sown seed and natural rhizome expansion, in our forest garden here at Poet’s Acre, located in the heart of 1000 acres of organic farmland and ancient woodland in rural North Norfolk.
Plants are lifted to order as part of a sustainable management plan that encourages diversity and resilience. The land here is completely organic, we do not use pesticides, or sprays of any kind.
About Tansy
Tansy is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant native to temperate Europe and Asia, with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm tall, and branching near the top. The leaves are alternate, 10–15 cm long and are pinnately lobed, divided almost to the centre into about seven pairs of segments, or lobes, which are again divided into smaller lobes having saw-toothed edges, giving the leaf a somewhat fern-like appearance. The roundish, flat-topped, button-like, yellow flower heads are produced in terminal clusters from mid-to-late summer. The scent is similar to that of camphor with hints of rosemary.
Garden Uses
Tansy can be used in companion planting and for biological pest control. It is planted alongside potatoes to repel the Colorado potato beetle.
Tansy has also been cultivated and used for its insect repellent.
Medicinal Uses
The ancient Greeks may have been the first to cultivate it as a medicinal herb. In the 8th century AD it was grown in the herb gardens of Charlemagne and by Benedictine monks of the Swiss monastery of Saint Gall. Tansy was used to treat intestinal worms, rheumatism, digestive problems, fevers, sores, and to bring out measles.
During the Middle Ages and later, high doses were used to induce abortions. Contradictorily, tansy was also used in lower doses to help women conceive and to prevent miscarriages.
Tansy was used as a face wash and was reported to lighten and purify the skin.
During the American colonial period, meat was frequently rubbed with or packed in tansy leaves to repel insects and delay spoilage. Tansy was frequently worn at that time in shoes to prevent malaria and other fevers.
In the 1940s, distilled tansy oil mixed with fleabane, pennyroyal and diluted alcohol was a well-known mosquito repellent.
In 2008, researchers in Sweden investigated the use of tansy to repel ticks, showing a 64–72 percent repellency for each oil constituent.
Domestic Uses
In England tansy was placed on window sills to repel flies; sprigs were placed in bed linen to drive away pests, and it has been used as an ant repellent.
Wildlife Uses
Tansy flowers are a source of nectar for certain insects and in particular the Tansy Beetle. The tansy beetle was once widespread in the UK, but now has a severely restricted and declining distribution. The beetle is threatened due to reduction in suitable wetland habitat and food plants, including tansy tanacetum vulgare. Until 2014, the last remaining UK population was thought to be on the River Ouse in York. The tansy beetle was thought to be extinct in the East Anglia fens but was rediscovered at Woodwalton by entomologist Dr Peter Kirby in 2014.
Culinary Uses
Christians began serving tansy with Lenten meals to commemorate the bitter herbs eaten by the Israelites.Tansy was thought to have the added Lenten benefits of controlling flatulence brought on by days of eating fish and pulses, and of preventing the intestinal worms believed to be caused by eating fish during Lent.
Craft uses
Dried Tansy flowers are for home decoration and wedding displays.
Toxicity
The leaves and flowers can toxic if consumed in large quantities.
Plant care
Your bareroot plants will arrive carefully packaged to prevent drying out. They have been pruned back hard for transporting to prevent damage and encourage strong and healthy regrowth. Plant roots have been dusted with mycorrhizal spores to encourage a strong relationship with the soil microbiome.
Remove from packaging as soon as possible and soak in clean rainwater for a while before planting or heeling in until ready to plant in final positions. Use the soaking water to water plants in. Plants become dormant in the autumn and grow vigorously in the spring.
Plants can be further propagated from seed, or by natural rhizome expansion. Tansy can spread prolifically, so plant with care, either in large pots or in beds where expansion can be controlled. It can be grown amongst established tall shrubs or small trees, as it tolerates some shade.
Postage & Packaging
Price includes postage, we send all our plants Royal Mail 2nd class to minimise costs for you. We aim to post items on the day after we receive the order, at most within 2 working days, as long as the weather is ok.
Please let us know if you haven’t received your order, so we can make sure it gets to you promptly.
And please contact us for bulk orders.
We use as much recycled material as possible for packaging.
About Poet’s Acre
Poet’s Acre is a forest garden project, creating a continuously expanding repository of regionally adapted plants, and a haven for wildlife and threatened species of all kinds. Our work is supported by a small family run nursery growing plants for gardens, forest gardens, food forests and permaculture projects. Our aim is to grow healthy chemical free plants for diversity, resilience, and climate adaptability, and encourage people to connect with the land, themselves and each other.
You are buying 10 organically grown Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) bareroot plants.
Organically and sustainably grown from self-sown seed and natural rhizome expansion, in our forest garden here at Poet’s Acre, located in the heart of 1000 acres of organic farmland and ancient woodland in rural North Norfolk.
Plants are lifted to order as part of a sustainable management plan that encourages diversity and resilience. The land here is completely organic, we do not use pesticides, or sprays of any kind.
About Tansy
Tansy is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant native to temperate Europe and Asia, with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm tall, and branching near the top. The leaves are alternate, 10–15 cm long and are pinnately lobed, divided almost to the centre into about seven pairs of segments, or lobes, which are again divided into smaller lobes having saw-toothed edges, giving the leaf a somewhat fern-like appearance. The roundish, flat-topped, button-like, yellow flower heads are produced in terminal clusters from mid-to-late summer. The scent is similar to that of camphor with hints of rosemary.
Garden Uses
Tansy can be used in companion planting and for biological pest control. It is planted alongside potatoes to repel the Colorado potato beetle.
Tansy has also been cultivated and used for its insect repellent.
Medicinal Uses
The ancient Greeks may have been the first to cultivate it as a medicinal herb. In the 8th century AD it was grown in the herb gardens of Charlemagne and by Benedictine monks of the Swiss monastery of Saint Gall. Tansy was used to treat intestinal worms, rheumatism, digestive problems, fevers, sores, and to bring out measles.
During the Middle Ages and later, high doses were used to induce abortions. Contradictorily, tansy was also used in lower doses to help women conceive and to prevent miscarriages.
Tansy was used as a face wash and was reported to lighten and purify the skin.
During the American colonial period, meat was frequently rubbed with or packed in tansy leaves to repel insects and delay spoilage. Tansy was frequently worn at that time in shoes to prevent malaria and other fevers.
In the 1940s, distilled tansy oil mixed with fleabane, pennyroyal and diluted alcohol was a well-known mosquito repellent.
In 2008, researchers in Sweden investigated the use of tansy to repel ticks, showing a 64–72 percent repellency for each oil constituent.
Domestic Uses
In England tansy was placed on window sills to repel flies; sprigs were placed in bed linen to drive away pests, and it has been used as an ant repellent.
Wildlife Uses
Tansy flowers are a source of nectar for certain insects and in particular the Tansy Beetle. The tansy beetle was once widespread in the UK, but now has a severely restricted and declining distribution. The beetle is threatened due to reduction in suitable wetland habitat and food plants, including tansy tanacetum vulgare. Until 2014, the last remaining UK population was thought to be on the River Ouse in York. The tansy beetle was thought to be extinct in the East Anglia fens but was rediscovered at Woodwalton by entomologist Dr Peter Kirby in 2014.
Culinary Uses
Christians began serving tansy with Lenten meals to commemorate the bitter herbs eaten by the Israelites.Tansy was thought to have the added Lenten benefits of controlling flatulence brought on by days of eating fish and pulses, and of preventing the intestinal worms believed to be caused by eating fish during Lent.
Craft uses
Dried Tansy flowers are for home decoration and wedding displays.
Toxicity
The leaves and flowers can toxic if consumed in large quantities.
Plant care
Your bareroot plants will arrive carefully packaged to prevent drying out. They have been pruned back hard for transporting to prevent damage and encourage strong and healthy regrowth. Plant roots have been dusted with mycorrhizal spores to encourage a strong relationship with the soil microbiome.
Remove from packaging as soon as possible and soak in clean rainwater for a while before planting or heeling in until ready to plant in final positions. Use the soaking water to water plants in. Plants become dormant in the autumn and grow vigorously in the spring.
Plants can be further propagated from seed, or by natural rhizome expansion. Tansy can spread prolifically, so plant with care, either in large pots or in beds where expansion can be controlled. It can be grown amongst established tall shrubs or small trees, as it tolerates some shade.
Postage & Packaging
Price includes postage, we send all our plants Royal Mail 2nd class to minimise costs for you. We aim to post items on the day after we receive the order, at most within 2 working days, as long as the weather is ok.
Please let us know if you haven’t received your order, so we can make sure it gets to you promptly.
And please contact us for bulk orders.
We use as much recycled material as possible for packaging.
About Poet’s Acre
Poet’s Acre is a forest garden project, creating a continuously expanding repository of regionally adapted plants, and a haven for wildlife and threatened species of all kinds. Our work is supported by a small family run nursery growing plants for gardens, forest gardens, food forests and permaculture projects. Our aim is to grow healthy chemical free plants for diversity, resilience, and climate adaptability, and encourage people to connect with the land, themselves and each other.
You are buying 10 organically grown Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) bareroot plants.
Organically and sustainably grown from self-sown seed and natural rhizome expansion, in our forest garden here at Poet’s Acre, located in the heart of 1000 acres of organic farmland and ancient woodland in rural North Norfolk.
Plants are lifted to order as part of a sustainable management plan that encourages diversity and resilience. The land here is completely organic, we do not use pesticides, or sprays of any kind.
About Tansy
Tansy is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant native to temperate Europe and Asia, with finely divided compound leaves and yellow, button-like flowers. It has a stout, somewhat reddish, erect stem, usually smooth, 50–150 cm tall, and branching near the top. The leaves are alternate, 10–15 cm long and are pinnately lobed, divided almost to the centre into about seven pairs of segments, or lobes, which are again divided into smaller lobes having saw-toothed edges, giving the leaf a somewhat fern-like appearance. The roundish, flat-topped, button-like, yellow flower heads are produced in terminal clusters from mid-to-late summer. The scent is similar to that of camphor with hints of rosemary.
Garden Uses
Tansy can be used in companion planting and for biological pest control. It is planted alongside potatoes to repel the Colorado potato beetle.
Tansy has also been cultivated and used for its insect repellent.
Medicinal Uses
The ancient Greeks may have been the first to cultivate it as a medicinal herb. In the 8th century AD it was grown in the herb gardens of Charlemagne and by Benedictine monks of the Swiss monastery of Saint Gall. Tansy was used to treat intestinal worms, rheumatism, digestive problems, fevers, sores, and to bring out measles.
During the Middle Ages and later, high doses were used to induce abortions. Contradictorily, tansy was also used in lower doses to help women conceive and to prevent miscarriages.
Tansy was used as a face wash and was reported to lighten and purify the skin.
During the American colonial period, meat was frequently rubbed with or packed in tansy leaves to repel insects and delay spoilage. Tansy was frequently worn at that time in shoes to prevent malaria and other fevers.
In the 1940s, distilled tansy oil mixed with fleabane, pennyroyal and diluted alcohol was a well-known mosquito repellent.
In 2008, researchers in Sweden investigated the use of tansy to repel ticks, showing a 64–72 percent repellency for each oil constituent.
Domestic Uses
In England tansy was placed on window sills to repel flies; sprigs were placed in bed linen to drive away pests, and it has been used as an ant repellent.
Wildlife Uses
Tansy flowers are a source of nectar for certain insects and in particular the Tansy Beetle. The tansy beetle was once widespread in the UK, but now has a severely restricted and declining distribution. The beetle is threatened due to reduction in suitable wetland habitat and food plants, including tansy tanacetum vulgare. Until 2014, the last remaining UK population was thought to be on the River Ouse in York. The tansy beetle was thought to be extinct in the East Anglia fens but was rediscovered at Woodwalton by entomologist Dr Peter Kirby in 2014.
Culinary Uses
Christians began serving tansy with Lenten meals to commemorate the bitter herbs eaten by the Israelites.Tansy was thought to have the added Lenten benefits of controlling flatulence brought on by days of eating fish and pulses, and of preventing the intestinal worms believed to be caused by eating fish during Lent.
Craft uses
Dried Tansy flowers are for home decoration and wedding displays.
Toxicity
The leaves and flowers can toxic if consumed in large quantities.
Plant care
Your bareroot plants will arrive carefully packaged to prevent drying out. They have been pruned back hard for transporting to prevent damage and encourage strong and healthy regrowth. Plant roots have been dusted with mycorrhizal spores to encourage a strong relationship with the soil microbiome.
Remove from packaging as soon as possible and soak in clean rainwater for a while before planting or heeling in until ready to plant in final positions. Use the soaking water to water plants in. Plants become dormant in the autumn and grow vigorously in the spring.
Plants can be further propagated from seed, or by natural rhizome expansion. Tansy can spread prolifically, so plant with care, either in large pots or in beds where expansion can be controlled. It can be grown amongst established tall shrubs or small trees, as it tolerates some shade.
Postage & Packaging
Price includes postage, we send all our plants Royal Mail 2nd class to minimise costs for you. We aim to post items on the day after we receive the order, at most within 2 working days, as long as the weather is ok.
Please let us know if you haven’t received your order, so we can make sure it gets to you promptly.
And please contact us for bulk orders.
We use as much recycled material as possible for packaging.
About Poet’s Acre
Poet’s Acre is a forest garden project, creating a continuously expanding repository of regionally adapted plants, and a haven for wildlife and threatened species of all kinds. Our work is supported by a small family run nursery growing plants for gardens, forest gardens, food forests and permaculture projects. Our aim is to grow healthy chemical free plants for diversity, resilience, and climate adaptability, and encourage people to connect with the land, themselves and each other.