Iceberg roses are the most popular variety in Melbourne! Striking white roses bloom in clusters continually from late spring to the first frosts of autumn.
• Thornless
• Hardy rose, tolerating poor soils
• Disease resistant
Approx 2ft tall (60cm tall)
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.
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Why buy 2ft Standard Iceberg Roses?
The Iceberg Rose looks great and has a ton of winning features among white roses, being practically thornless and disease resistant. But when it’s planted with it’s partner in crime the English Box, it looks even better. This classic duo combo works really well together as the white flowers pop from the lush dark green foliage of the English Box. 2ft Standard Iceberg roses are a great size for creating this combo, as the head of the rose plant sits up high and leaves room for the English Box hedging underneath.
Pictured here are 3ft Standard Iceberg roses to the left, and Iceberg Bush Roses to the right. A better option would have been a happy medium - the 2ft Standard Iceberg rose, not too short and not too tall
It’s also a very hardy combination with both plants thriving excellent in Melbourne's extreme 4 season days. You can see this combo in an abundance of individual plantings of the English Box and Iceberg Roses in many inner suburban gardens surrounding Melbourne.
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botanical name
Foeniculum vulgare "purpureum"
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