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Post by oldmoleskins on Jul 8, 2009 8:08:42 GMT
This Yeti of a plant, 6 foot tall, has never been picked over for fronds in its two-year life - so I've cut it down and may well dig it out. Before I do, has anyone got a good word to say for the stuff?  OM |
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Post by Spruance on Jul 8, 2009 8:22:01 GMT
I like to see fennel, preferably the bronze variety, in gardens as the bees seem to like it and I like the scent as you brush past it, but as I don't like aniseed flavoured food that's as far as it goes. Aren't you supposed to be able to eat the roots? Again the aniseed would put me off, or maybe you could use it to make ground bait for fishing? If you give it a severe haircut and replant it in the garden OM it will be perfectly happy outdoors, and I am sure you could fit it in somewhere. i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/wink.gif |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Jul 8, 2009 8:29:17 GMT
Aren't you supposed to be able to eat the roots? If you give it a severe haircut and replant it in the garden OM it will be perfectly happy outdoors, and I am sure you could fit it in somewhere. Ahhh, that would be your bulb fennel... I quite like that, and grow it too - and yep, I guess I could find a spot for it, but am feeling particularly antagonistic towards it. I think I must have thought no herb patch should be without one. Now I think no herb patch is big enough to warrant one... OM |
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Post by Dr Bill on Jul 8, 2009 10:53:59 GMT
It's a menace in my opinion. Virtually impossible to dig out and seeds itself everywhere
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Post by Tig on Jul 8, 2009 11:12:22 GMT
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Post by jean on Jul 8, 2009 20:38:08 GMT
Could Mrs OM use the foliage in flower arrangements  |
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Post by Chuckles on Jul 9, 2009 7:18:36 GMT
I quite like to see it growing in a flower border, the soft leaves seem to add something  it would look rather nice against your wall OM. I've got the ordinary green one but it's really in the wrong place and the bronze one I have got dug out as it didn't seem to be doing well so is now in a pot waiting for a home to be found somewhere in the garden, I hate throwing stuff out. We've only used it once in cooking, placed a leaf under a piece of salmon and it tatsed quite nice, not that aniseedy though. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jul 11, 2009 14:44:46 GMT
I really love bronze Fennel! It's one of my all time favourite garden herbs - it's subtlely beautiful, very reliable with a long season of interest, looks brilliant with all sorts of other plants, the bees and other insects love it and it smells gorgeous.....what's not to love? (But I wouldn't ever plant it under cover....) |
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Post by Auricula on Jul 11, 2009 22:32:57 GMT
I like the look of fennel but can't stand the smell or taste of aniseed.......yuk!!!
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Post by Ladygardener on Jul 12, 2009 8:24:42 GMT
The bronze variety was very popular at the Chelsea flower show. I think both varieties are lovely. I have one of the green ones, beautiful foliage.
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Post by 4pygmies on Jul 13, 2009 6:37:12 GMT
Just as an aside, when Florence Fennel is cooked the aniseed flavour is greatly reduced. Very nice it is too then  |
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it would look rather nice against your wall OM. I've got the ordinary green one but it's really in the wrong place and the bronze one I have got dug out as it didn't seem to be doing well so is now in a pot waiting for a home to be found somewhere in the garden, I hate throwing stuff out.
