Cynara Care, How to Grow Cardoon / Artichoke : 3 of 30, my month of perennials

[@JoeyNightmares]

Love the idea of month is perennials ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Nulife23]

This has been a wonderful plant for texture and color! Yours is beautiful!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you. It is a star

[@vickieescobar163]

Love this plant!

[@miche7032]

Beautiful plant, I like the shape of its leaves.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for watching.

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

I just visited a cardoon in our local park. Falls Park at Reedy River in Greenville, SC. However, I haven’t seen any cardoon for sale locally. Or I’d get one. A thistle without thorns but plenty of geometry. Neat!

[@GardeningatDouentza]

In Ireland cynara is regularly for sale with the vegetables. Happy hunting !

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

Thanks!

[@kimberlysmith4997]

You can buy seeds to grow them

[@104holly2]

I am in Myrtle Beach and have had them for a few years.. try a non-big box nursery - see if they can get them for you ... it is not a thistle without thorns.. definitely has thorns on the stem of the thistles!

[@petersaula2304]

@@GardeningatDouentza Will cardoon seeds 'take' in a peaty/rough soil if planted straight out in to the ground?

Nice

[@Wadadli68]

Gorgeous plant. Mine is just sending up it's flowers now and the bees love them so they're staying! Mine is really spiky but I couldn't see any thorns on yours so I wonder if it's the same variety? Anyway, I couldn't hear you very well in this video, even with all my volumes turned up. Not sure if it was just me...?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks for watching and for your comment. That's bizarre about the volume. It sounds perfectly clear to me. Did you try turning on the closed captions? The closed captions are auto-generated and the programme has no problem understanding me either and writing what I say on the screen.

[@kimberlysmith4997]

I had to turn my volume all the way up to hear also

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

Beautiful leaves. The wild variety is common in my area and is Cynara humilis which is also edible but with lots of work because the edible stems have to stripped of all the prickles. In some places is a delicacy gourmet food and a very expensive one too.. Do you happen to have the name of your species?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thank you for your comment, Fernanda. It is Cynara cardunculus that I have. Tried eating the stems but we didn't like them! Happy growing.

[@onemanfran]

First time growing cardoons. I love them so much (give me a border full of cardoon and fennel and I'll be happy). I bought it as a little root. It's april now and still quite small, is this normal? Edit: planted the root about a month or two ago and it's now about 20cm tall)

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I'm not sure where you live but here in Ireland it's still quite cold. I'd say your cardoon should get going in the next month as temperatures warm up. By the way, cardoon and purple fennel - great plants!

[@nowirehangers2815]

Mine seem to have put in size over the winter here

[@mariarahelvarnhagen2729]

Hippolyte boiled down cardoon with epsom salt water and sprayed all the musmolde poppies at douentza ?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

What?

[@AnitaGraber]

I’ve grown them in zone 6-Northern Ohio-on the south side of the house-my greenhouse owner friend predicted they wouldn’t last the winter-but they’ve returned now for the past 4 years-I even transplanted a pup and it’s doing well-2nd season-facing NE-I let them flower-because of their height and the size of the flower head-it’s grand and large and the bumble bees love it. One thing I’ve read is not to plant them near vines. I can’t seem to find an answer as to why not? Since I have a deer problem I was going to plant them near grapes to deter the deer-but maybe I shouldn’t-do you know? Thank you for your video.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

That's very interesting about how well your cynara is doing and I am happy for you. I find it a great screening plant at the back (perhaps what you are also partially using it for near your grapes). Although it does kind of shrink in stature after flowering. I'm afraid I never heard about not planting cynara near grapes so I can't comment. It's not something that really comes up here in Ireland as we don't grow grapes outdoors. Thanks for watching and happy growing.

[@EireFirst25]

How's it going love, would this be okay for semi-shade Thanks 🙂

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Yes, it grows in full sun or partial shade, 3:02 in the video.

[@EireFirst25]

Oh great 🙂 sorry - I'm going to blame a pup for distracting me 🙈😂

[@nanablue3748]

If you bring jt inside do you chop it in fall?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I don't think you should cut this plant back in autumn even though some years the frost does that job here.

[@j.d.8075]

Totally unsuitable for tropical Aus though...

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Well, that could be

[@nowirehangers2815]

@@GardeningatDouentza not in tasmania