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Burnet Salad
The Burnet Salad, 'Peterium sanguisorba', has refreshing, light cucumber flavored leaves that will add flavor to salads, soups, and cool summer drinks all year long. Burnet Salad is a hardy perennial that is great for novice gardeners and gourmets. The attractive plant looks like rustic maiden hair fern and can be planted in rock gardens, flower beds, and containers. The leaves can be chopped and added to butter for a gourmet spread. If protected, Burnet Salad will produce tasty, green leaves even in cold climate winters. Burnet is a wonderful container plant and an attractive ornamental with delicate round, pink flowers. Plant 2 weeks before the average last frost date. In mild climates, Burnet can be seeded in the fall. Burnet will grow in just about any soil and actually prefers and tastes best in poor, dry soils. Soil also must be well drained. Keep flower stalks pruned for the best tasting foliage. ... more information
Fennel - Bronze-Smokey The Fennel Bronze, 'Foeniculum vulgare', has stunningly beautiful, purple feathery plumes that provide a lacy contrast in the vegetable or flower garden. The Bronze Fennel is an absolutely dazzling, hard to find Fennel, that is used primarily for ornamental value and has tasty foliage and seeds. The tall feathery, smoky purple foliage provides a beautiful accent with pink and white roses or any other contrasting flower color. The Bronze Fennel attracts butterflies. The swallowtail butterfly lays eggs on fennel. The seed produced by the Bronze Fennell is used for flavoring cookies, breads, and cakes. Fresh leaves can be sprinkled on salads or used in salad dressings. Plant in the spring 2 weeks before the last average frost date. Fennel does best in well drained, sandy soils with lots of organic matter. They need to be kept moist. |
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