I hope my parents aren’t reading this, but I used to get deeply trolleyed on absinthe during my year abroad in Spain. My ...

Native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Artemisia abrotanum is very simple to maintain in the right conditions.

The origin of the drink is a little mysterious. We know that artemisia absinthium – otherwise known as wormwood – was used medicinally as early as ancient Egypt over 3,000 years ago.