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Originally Posted by Jeannine Anne
Kath,I could be very wrong but that picture looks more like a cardoon than an artichoke plant, very similar but the chokes are smaller and more plentiful plus is overwinters better than a choke. My chokes didn't grow as many stalks as that but they did overwinter well with a bit of protection and I kept them several years on the UK.
The cardoon is also useful but you don't eat the choke you eat the stalk.
XX Jeannine
OOp sforgot, it will get very big and cover quite an are..think Pampas grass.
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Don't know- never grown cardoon, but I can see on Google Images that the two plants do look alike. The one I posted was labeled artichoke and looked like the ones I grew, but I would recommend everyone else checking out the photos found online to see what's what.
Kath