Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), 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, so imagine the surprise when I discovered that Jack had included it in his book, Wild About Weeds. The outrage began to disperse as I was forced to admit that it does like to seed itself about. And then, remembering both the title and the point of the book, and that I too am wild about its pesky and prolific nature. For anyone plagued by the gorgeous, fluffy and delicious thing (hard to imagine), it’s worth remembering that as a Mediterranean herb it doesn’t like shade; while it was a feature of the earliest incarnations of our garden, it began to retreat quite rapidly as the shrubs and hedges grew up around, robbing the beds of much of the direct sunlight they’d originally enjoyed, to the extent that it now needs to be reintroduced in the sunnier areas.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
