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Fennel 'Bronze' 4" Pot removeDietes grandiflora 'Wild Iris' removeGaura 'Pink' Butterfly Bush 6″ Pot remove
NameFennel 'Bronze' 4" Pot removeDietes grandiflora 'Wild Iris' removeGaura 'Pink' Butterfly Bush 6″ Pot remove
ImageFennel 'Bronze' 4" PotA sidewalk bordered by tall green plants with purple and white flowers under a Morus 'Weeping Mulberry' 1.8m Standard (Bare Root) creates a picturesque scene.Pink Gaura Butterfly Bush
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Bronze Fennel

Bronze Fennel is a herbaceous Perennial plant that can grow up to 1.5m tall. It's a very easy to grow plant, however young plants are frost tender. To produce richer oils and seeds, this plant should be planted in full sun, in well drained soil. It easily self seeds, so deadhead after flowering to keep under control. With its soft bronze foliage and pretty little yellow flowers, this plant is also great as a decorative addition to any garden. Bronze fennel has the same sweet liquorice flavour as the traditional green variety, so can be used in its place in any recipe. The leaves are great with fish, and can be stuffed into the cavity of a whole fish or to wrap fillets. You can also use it to make a stuffing. Another herb that goes well with fennel, is French tarragon. Tarragon having a spicy aniseed kick and fennel a sweeter flavour. You can make a very nice tea from the leaves and seed of bronze fennel. Or milk steeped with this herb can make delicious ice cream, or be used in baking cakes or bread. To harvest the seeds, leave the flower stalks on the plant until the seeds turn from green to brown then hang the seed heads in a paper bag to finish drying out. The seeds are ready when the shake away from the main head easily. The store them in an air tight container away from sunlight. 4" pot size.
Dietes grandiflora Dietes or Wild Irises are well known exotic plant with long strappy leaves and beautiful large blooms which are white marked with yellow and violet. They're a commonly seen in gardens and large landscapes throughout the country. They are perennial & evergreen, and grows up to 1.5m in large clumps. Wild Iris can grown in shade or sun and is tolerant of drought, salt and waterlogging, making it a versatile and very useful plant.

Gaura lindheimeri "Butterfly Bush"

Butterfly Bush is a bushy, hardy perennial shrub with long graceful stems that bloom with pale pink flowers in spring-summer. These stems grow up to 1m long, but can be clipped back shorter, and sway gracefully in the breeze. The name of a popular variety, Whirling Butterflies, perfectly describes the way the plant resembles a cloud of butterflies when swaying in the breeze. 6" pot size.
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botanical name

Foeniculum vulgare "purpureum"

height x width

90cm x 70cm

features

Yellow large petalled iris-like flowers with a brown mark during spring and summer

conditions

Hardy, prefers full sun to part shade in well-drained soil

landscape use

Mass plantings, general gardening and landscaping, roadside planting

botanical name

Gaura lindheimeri

height x width

1.2m x 1m

features

Masses of sprays of beautiful white flowers opening from pink buds along the stems are borne from spring to autumn

conditions

Full sun in light well-drained soil, cut back hard after flowering

landscape use

Background planting, flower borders, color, general garden planting,

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