Alex Smith Garden Design, Ltd.
“The Wormwood Ball: A Garden Party in the French Quarter”

Music and laughter mingle beneath the rising moon. In the French Quarter, the old city lifts an emerald glass to the sky. It’s the Wormwood Ball, a garden party circling among vibrant flowers, candles and mystery. In the center, a canal stretches before a lush arbor draped with climbing roses, wisteria, masks and beads, flanked by artful boxwoods. And there—a shimmering distillery of absinthe, the anise-flavored liquor called la Fée Verte (“the Green Fairy”). This potent spirit of the silvery-green Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) has long been the elixir of poets, artists and madmen frequenting Parisian studios and nightclubs. Between the intensely colored borders of the Wormwood Ball, revelers find an intoxicating mixture of romance, beauty and intrigue.