I'm hoping that some of you chamomile experts can help me. I make pressed flower art, and a while back I purchased over the internet some beautiful pressed greenery from a lady in Turkey. She said it was "chamomile daisy". It was beautifiul, dark green, bushy, and lush (the leaves had an almost fern-like look to them). I compared it to pictures on the internet and decided that is was probably Roman Chamomile. I want to try growing some myself, but I want to make sure I'm planting the same plant. Roman Chamomile supposedly grows in my zone (U.S. hardiness zone 5b in St. Louis, Missouri). However, I saw it growing at the botanical gardens here a few weeks ago, and it was not the beautiful, dark green, bushy and lush plant that I had purchased from the lady in Turkey. Instead, it was leggy, light green, and had very skimpy foliage. (We have very hot and humid summers here; that may make a difference.) My question is: does your Roman Chamomile foliage have that beautiful, dark green, bushy, and lush look to it? Does keeping it sheared back as when using it for a ground cover cause it to look more like that? Thank you for any guidance you can give.
