Bronze Sweet Fennel Seeds | Piccolo

Beautifully packaged seeds that make the most thoughtful gift for garden lovers.

Discover 'Grow' a range of beautifully illustrated fruit and vegetable riso print greeting cards, prints and patches inspired by our city allotment plot and all that grows. The seeds make the sweetest suprise gift popped in one of the grow greeting cards.

Ideal for small spaces - delicious edibles and delicate blooms for the window box and balcony gardeners or equally for the green fingered allotment enthusiasts. 

Bronze sweet fennel is a dark, smoky foliage plant with liquorice-flavoured leaves and seeds; it works well as a hazy backdrop in perennial borders. The yellow inflorescences attract many ladybirds, which helps to keep aphids at bay. Sweet fennel is specifically grown for its seeds – which are actually fruits – that are used fresh or dried as a spice in many culinary traditions such as bread, salami and liqueurs recipes. Roasted fennel fruits are eaten as mukhwas, an after-meal digestive and breath freshener, or candied as comfit in India. Fun fact: as a result of Spanish colonisation, the plant became wild and is now widely found along California’s legendary Interstate 101.