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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: A. Fallowfield on July 24, 2009, 15:23

Title: Wotisit?
Post by: A. Fallowfield on July 24, 2009, 15:23
When I took on my overgrown plot just over a month ago I was told the giant overgrown thistle (7 foot tall!) was a globe artichoke. Then someone said that it was cardoons???
Whatever it gets chopped back and covered this Autumn.
Anyone know the difference? The first flower appeared this morning.
(http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp141/Flatters_photos/Arti01.jpg)
(http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/pp141/Flatters_photos/Arti02.jpg)
Title: Re: Wotisit?
Post by: gillie on July 24, 2009, 15:33
If they are seven feet tall they are cardoons.  Globe artichokes only go up to about three feet.

Gillie
Title: Re: Wotisit?
Post by: 8doubles on July 24, 2009, 15:39
They look like cardoons , the flower tends to be more upright and smaller than the chokes, got both , will double check if it stops raining. :)

Gillie, my chokes are thriving on neglect and must be nearer 5ft  :D



Been and had a look, i still think cardoon. :)
Title: Re: Wotisit?
Post by: A. Fallowfield on July 24, 2009, 15:39
Quote from: gillie on July 24, 2009, 15:33
If they are seven feet tall they are cardoons.  Globe artichokes only go up to about three feet.

Gillie

Even left to their own devises?
Title: Re: Wotisit?
Post by: scabs on July 24, 2009, 15:53
Just had a bit of a google and the leaves look much more like Globe Artichokes - not grown either so wouldn't like to say really...
Title: Re: Wotisit?
Post by: mumofstig on July 24, 2009, 15:56
what do you think cardoon flower (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.perennialveg.org.uk/cardoon_flower.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.perennialveg.org.uk/cardoon.htm&h=375&w=500&sz=52&tbnid=XA7H19aAzgeCXM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcardoon%2Bflower%2Bimage&hl=en&usg=__6-A2lapNYOYEg7dOOgJRIJpjOPU=&ei=0cppSp-LAuOOjAeUyZi6Cw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image)

artichoke flower (http://www.hear.org/starr/plants/images/species/?q=cynara+scolymus)
look more like cardoon to me :unsure:
Title: Re: Wotisit?
Post by: A. Fallowfield on July 24, 2009, 16:08
Quote from: mumofstig on July 24, 2009, 15:56
what do you think cardoon flower (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.perennialveg.org.uk/cardoon_flower.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.perennialveg.org.uk/cardoon.htm&h=375&w=500&sz=52&tbnid=XA7H19aAzgeCXM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcardoon%2Bflower%2Bimage&hl=en&usg=__6-A2lapNYOYEg7dOOgJRIJpjOPU=&ei=0cppSp-LAuOOjAeUyZi6Cw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image)

artichoke flower (http://www.hear.org/starr/plants/images/species/?q=cynara+scolymus)
look more like cardoon to me :unsure:

Yes, I think you may be right. Better let the flower arranging plotter have them!