Common Names
Sweet Fennel, Wild Fennel, Copper Fennel
About This Plant
Bronze Fennel and Green Leaf Fennel, commonly known as Sweet Fennel, are the wild cousins of the more commonly known garden variety bulb Fennel known as Florence Fennel or Finocchio. They differ from Florence Fennel in several ways. While the bulb variety is typically grown as an annual and a “vegetable”, Bronze Fennel and Green Leaf Fennel are grown as perennials and are commonly referred to as “herbs” since they lack the enlarged, flattened stem bases that form the bulbous vegetable of Florence Fennel.
Wild Fennel is a hardy herbaceous perennial in USDA Zones 5-11. In the lower zones, it can be Read More
Common Names
Herb Primrose, King’s Cure-All, Wildflower of Europe, Cureall, Fever Plant, Field Primrose, Four-o’clock, Suncups, Sundrops, Night Candle, Night Willow Herb
About This Plant
Evening Primrose is a tall, wildflower-type biennial plant that is hardy in USDA zones 4-10. In its first year, many obtuse leaves are formed which spread into a flat rosette on the ground, and in its second year hairy, flowering stems rise to a height of three to four feet, sometimes more. It flowers for a long time, making it very showy in the garden when planted in mass.
Evening Primrose’s lemon-scented leaves are alternate, rough and hairy, and lanceolate with nearly entire margins. The second-year leaves are Read More