Fennel, a favourite border floofler, giving both height and volume with an airy grace that somehow manages to avoid bulk. It’s quite a trick to pull off…
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A dull, mizzly and oddly mild January afternoon. Knees and fingers are generously besmirched with mud and, feeling in the need of a pick-me-up,
Read moreDay 134: giant fennel
May is a month where giant carrots like to make their presence known – the bigger members of the Apiaceae family. Of course, cow parsley, frothing every hedgerow and uncut verge by now, but even larger than that is the giant fennel, Ferrula communis…
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Emma’s Thursday posy, just cut from the garden. Quite a handful, with a knockout scent from a combination of lavender, fennel and sweet peas.
Need to find a better vase, though.