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Do you like my bronze leaved fennel?

Millie Molly MandyMillie Molly Mandy Posts: 142
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Sorry, for the pedants, Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum' or 'Nigra'








My camera does not do it justice I'm afraid.
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Beautiful MMM, but it isn't bronze leaved fennel.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    I've grown some fennel this year, but I sowed it too late.  It gets quite big!  It's nice.
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    MMM
    Have grown the bronze form of Fennel for many years , and has proven itself a reliable perennial . As with all umbellifers , they are  excellent plants for insects , especially it seems for hoverflies .

    PS Regarding your thread on your Globe Thistle ; call it what YOU think is correct , and enjoy the plant for the attractive species it is . I always use botanical names if possible ; some people do and some don't ,(I'm sure the plants don't mind) :)
    Avoid the white-flowered forms of Echinops though ; turn out to be a dull 'off-white' colour .
    Above all , keep posting!!
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I love the boulders too - real statements.
    Rutland, England
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I started with some bronze leaved, but I think the original died, the next years were new from dropped seed and reverted to green.  Still pretty though.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I think that must be what happened.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s what happens. Every so often I start again with fresh seed and methodically go through the garden weeding out the green seedlings. I love using fennel as an ephemeral screen at the end of the veg patch between it and our ‘quiet corner’ ... it doesn’t shade the veg but marks an ‘edge’.🙂

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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