Anise Seeds

Anise Seeds for Planting: Licorice Flavor and Pollinator Blooms

If you love the sweet, licorice-like flavor of anise, growing it yourself adds a lot to the kitchen and the garden. Our collection of anise seeds is small but focused, with a true anise annual grown for its aromatic seed and a perennial anise hyssop grown for its scented leaves and long-blooming flower spikes. Organic and conventional options are both available, and each listing notes which is which.

Anise Plant Seeds: Two Ways to Grow Licorice Flavor

Anise is the classic herb, with feathery leaves and airy white umbels that resemble Queen Anne's lace. It's an annual grown mainly for the seed, and the leaves are good too, adding a mild anise note to salads and fish dishes. Hyssop Anise takes a different path. It produces tall spikes of purple flowers that bees and butterflies love, and the leaves and blooms make a fragrant tea or garnish. It's a perennial, so a single planting can keep coming back and spreading. Growing both gives you a plant for the kitchen and a plant for the pollinators, and they look good side by side in an herb bed.

Growing Anise Seeds for Planting: Timing and Patience

True anise is a warm-season, slow-maturing crop. Anise seed typically germinates in 10 to 12 days at 68°F, and around 120 days to harvest, which lines up with the 91 to 120 day maturity shown for the annual in this collection. Like most carrot-family plants, it develops a taproot and resents being moved, so sowing it directly in place after your last frost is the safer choice. Hyssop Anise runs on a different clock: ts seeds need light to germinate and take one to four weeks to sprout, with cold, moist stratification improving results. With different timing for each plant, the Seedtime garden planning software keeps it straightforward by building a planting calendar around your frost dates, and the layout planner helps you place a perennial patch where it can stay put.

Buy Anise Seeds for Planting with One Shipping Charge

You can add anise seeds for planting to an order alongside seeds from other suppliers and pay one flat shipping charge, or qualify for free standard shipping on Seedtime-fulfilled orders of $49 or more to the lower 48 states. Paid Seedtime members get 20% off seed packets marked "Fulfilled by Seedtime" and 5% off everything else in the store. You can start planning for free, and if you want unlimited calendars and layouts along with those store discounts, compare Seedtime's plans to find the right fit.