We recommend planting at least six weeks before your first frost.

Tanacetum vulgareTansy

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Tanacetum vulgare Tansy image
Tanacetum vulgare Tansy image

Tanacetum vulgareTansy

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About this plant

Height
4 Feet
Hardiness
Perennial in Zones 3-11
Flower Color
Gold
Characteristics
Full/Part Sun, Herbaceous
Uses
Dried Flower, Fragrant, Medicinal, Ornamental

Growing & using Tansy

Tanacetum vulgare Tansy

Tansy is a bitter herb that was used more in times past than now. A European native, Tansy was mainly used as a medicinal herb or an insect repellant.

Tansy Plant Tanacetum Vulgare emerging in spring.

In Elizabethan times Tansy was used to make Tansy Custard. It was popular enough that puddings were sometimes called tansies. The taste really doesn’t please most modern palates and it has pretty much been discounted as a culinary herb.

Tansy button flowers.

Our uses for Tansy are more of the ornamental kind. It makes a nice tall feathery specimen in the garden. The sprays of little gold buttons are pretty in the garden and make good additions to fresh herb wreaths or arrangements.