Description

Fennel has been a popular cultivated herb for centuries, valued by the Ancient Greeks and Romans and found in kitchen and herb gardens from ancient times through to the present day.

With flowers loved by bees, and easy to grow pretty much year round, this delightful herb produces lots of beautiful flowers and seeds which can be easily collected and dried for use throughout the year.

Throughout the centuries, fennel has maintained a reputation as an aid to digestion, a slimming aid and protection against obesity and is appreciated for its anise flavour. In our gardens today, fennel can be grown as a herb for its fragrant feathery fronds, or as a vegetable when growing bulbing fennel varieties.

This variety is the perennial herb fennel, which is the one to choose for harvesting fennel leaves, seeds and pollen.