This is a pic of a volunteer from my garden.
( sent from a tablet thingy, hope the pic is not upside down)
I watched it growing this season and planned to transplant it in fall. First I thought it was just a standard bronze fennel, but at a second glance it looks like a red veggie fennel.

And it probably is a cross with the plain white veggie fennel. I always plant some young fennel plants, optimistic, at the start of the season, but as I am a bad veggie gardener they tend to bolt and flower, which is fine with me, the flowers go well with Dahlias in bouquets....

And the bronze fennels is dotted around in my perennial beds, so plenty opportunity for cross pollination.

I wait now whether it makes it through our mild winter and how it decides to grow. I will transplant it definetely,

right now it is still sitting at the edge of our path and gets stepped on.

Well, just a funny foundling,

Happy new year everyone, bye, Lin