02/06/2026
🌿 Herb of the Week: Bronze Fennel 🌿
This week’s featured herb is Bronze Fennel — a stunning and highly useful herb that brings beauty, flavor, and traditional medicinal support to your garden and home.
With its feathery bronze-purple foliage and airy yellow flowers, bronze fennel is loved for:
✨ Fresh and dried flower arrangements
✨ Pollinator gardens (bees and butterflies love it!)
✨ Culinary use
✨ Traditional herbal support
🍽️ Culinary Uses:
The leaves, seeds, and flowers all have a mild licorice flavor and can be used to:
• Season fish, chicken, and vegetables
• Add to salads and garnishes
• Make herbal teas
• Flavor Mediterranean-style dishes and homemade sausage
🌿 Medicinal Uses (Traditional):
The seeds and leaves are the primary medicinal parts of bronze fennel. Traditionally, fennel has been used to support:
• Digestion, bloating, and gas
• Cramping and digestive discomfort
• Gentle liver and detox support
• Fresh breath (chewing the seeds)
• Milk flow support in nursing mothers (traditional use)
• Calming of the digestive and nervous systems
🌼 Garden Bonus:
I will have LOTS of baby bronze fennel plants coming up this spring! 🌱 If you’d like a few for your own garden, you’re welcome to stop by and take some — free to a good home. They’re easy to grow, beautiful in beds, and make gorgeous additions to fresh and dried flower arrangements.
Comment or message me if you’d like me to save a couple for you! 💚