Speechless Sunday - Recognize This?

DeeDee- I had to scroll down to see what it was!  Do you grow them??? How lucky are you!! Start melting the butter!

Wow, impressive.  I only grow... ordinary veggies- tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers...

One crop is great.  So many things grow well in CA. Enjoy them while you can!

DeeDee  - that is such a cool picture of an artichoke plant! I never knew what the plant itself actually looked like - it's huge and very pretty!

Hi DeeDee - I have never seen an artichoke plant--awesome! 

DeeDee,  I'm amazed at the plant.  I've always enjoyed eating them but never thought about how the plant would look.

Dee Dee, great photo, you would think artichokes grow like lettuce, interesting

Hi DeeDee,

I have never seen an artichoke plant before.  Very interesting!  Reminds of how unusual an asparagus plant is too.

Lisa

are all artichoke plants that huge??? wow... You can grow anything in CA!!

I grew one of these in Orange County . . . Newport Beach, if you can believe it. The plant just kept growing bigger and bigger and bigger. It was July, and the plant was immense. But no artichokes. I couldn't understand where or how they grew, and this was before the age of Internet, so it wasn't like I could look it up online. Every day I stared at this plant in my garden. Then, finally one day in late August, I spotted a tiny little artichoke buried in the leaves. I was so excited. And then I moved at the end of August, and left the plant behind.