Cottage Garden Bronze Fennel Seeds

Cottage Garden Bronze Fennel Seed

Bronze Fennel is a multi-purpose Cottage Garden favourite here in Norfolk. Grown for its beautiful young fronze-like leaves for the kitchen, its 6-8ft structural border filler and support abilities, but also its edible but beautiful heads of seeds in autumn.

The large flat seed heads held at 6-8ft on mature plants follow delicate pale yellow flowers, but it's the architectural value that really make it worth growing in a mixed cottage garden border.

Bronze fennel is a hardy perennial is self-supporting and produces lots of upright flower stems around 6-8-feet tall. The young folliage is deep bronze green and has a wonderfull aniseed like flavour.

Why Grow Bronze Fennel?

• 🏡 Ideal for Mixed Cottage Gardens – Producing upright seethrough support for other plants and climbers. A traditional heirloom cottage garden flower, perfect for rustic mixed self-seeding and replicating cottage gardens.
  

• Your own supply of edible fennel seeds each autumn.

Growing Information:

• 🌱 Sow: any time of year by scattering the seeds in their final flowering position. Alternatively, in seed compost and transplant to growing position when the plants are at the 2 leaf stage before the full tap root develops.

• ☀️ Position: Ideal full sun, or mixed border and tolerates very poor and gravel-filled soils

• 📏 Spacing: mature plants can form crowns 8-12-inches across  and will send up 4-8 stems. Grow as single plants, Fennel grows well in gravel but is too top heavy for all but the largest pots.

• 🌾 Harvest: seed from brown seed head in Autumn and sow immediately. or leave to seed naturally