Smoky fennel
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
Elegant, slightly moodily coloured, fern-like foliage
A beautiful filler in deep purple-bronze, this one is tall and elegant and smells divine. The flowers are golden yellow, structural umbels.
Yes, this is what I have always known as bronze fennel, but in discussions with people in the States, they let slip that, over the Atlantic, it is known as ‘smoky’. I determined that very minute to never call it anything else.
Perennial and also self-sows. Promise me you will cut every last flower or seed head, unless you want to be hoeing it out of your paths in perpetuity.
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
Elegant, slightly moodily coloured, fern-like foliage
A beautiful filler in deep purple-bronze, this one is tall and elegant and smells divine. The flowers are golden yellow, structural umbels.
Yes, this is what I have always known as bronze fennel, but in discussions with people in the States, they let slip that, over the Atlantic, it is known as ‘smoky’. I determined that very minute to never call it anything else.
Perennial and also self-sows. Promise me you will cut every last flower or seed head, unless you want to be hoeing it out of your paths in perpetuity.
Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum'
Elegant, slightly moodily coloured, fern-like foliage
A beautiful filler in deep purple-bronze, this one is tall and elegant and smells divine. The flowers are golden yellow, structural umbels.
Yes, this is what I have always known as bronze fennel, but in discussions with people in the States, they let slip that, over the Atlantic, it is known as ‘smoky’. I determined that very minute to never call it anything else.
Perennial and also self-sows. Promise me you will cut every last flower or seed head, unless you want to be hoeing it out of your paths in perpetuity.