Berkeley Gardens19 May 2012 09:01 am
There’s an artichoke in our neighborhood that’s growing into a tree. They’ve been pruning it up and now it has a trunk and everything. The flower heads are small since this plant has been in the ground for a number of years. I wouldn’t try to eat them.
10th Street, Berkeley
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May 19th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
It’s likely a cardoon. We have a patch in our yard that for years I thought was a pretty bad artichoke (have to pick the heads very small to eat them), but recently learned it’s actually a patch of cardoons; primarily grown for edible stalks. We’re in south Sonoma and ours die down every summer and sprout again when the cool wet weather returns -and grow to six feet or more!