Vegetable, Flowers...

[Joyce]

One that sounds like a veggie: Echinaea 'Tomato Soup'




And an Artichoke, both a veggie and a flower. :cool3:


 

[kitfoxdrvr]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.     I don't even like tomato soup!     Love the flower though!     And artichokes, I really love them!        They melt in the summer for me, though, how did you grow them, Joyce?   :'(

[Jerry]

yes they want costal fog.  I have modest luck at best.  No idea how you did it.
Also a thistle

[kitfoxdrvr]

But more tasty than a thistle.  My horses won't even eat thistle, and they love poison ivy and sumac!!!   

[Joyce]

Castroville, California, bills itself as "the Artichoke Capital of the World"...
So they must be easy to grow in CA.
http://www.ehow.com/how_9881_grow-artichokes.html

Anyway, I grow mine with dapples sun all morning and afternoon full sun.
No coastal fog, no nothing, not even extra water because the sprinklers don't reach very well into that area.
They are native to the meditteranean so they are used to warm areas. 

[Mikey]

I love artichokes.  Castroville is on the coast just north of Monterey and they have pretty cool weather.  Sadly development is slowly pushing out the ag business though.  I've seen a lot of great farmland/orchards plowed under for development over the years.

[kitfoxdrvr]

They are native to the meditteranean so they are used to warm areas. 

Yeah, as you likely remember, a lot of Mediterranean area natives HATE North Carolina.  Summer rains and humidity are not Med-conducive!  But I still gotta have some herbs and it would not be a garden without lavender!  I guess I will just have to buy artichokes, though!  :'(

Steve