With its large, silver leaves and wonderful statuesque form, the Globe Artichoke deserves a place for these features alone. A perennial with a number of different varieties, the green-purple edible flower buds can be harvested over late spring and summer.
- Type
- Exotic
- Maintenance
- High
- Water use
- Moderate
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Small shrubs 0.5 - 3 metres
- Root size
- Less than 2.5m (safe)
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Semi-arid with summer rain, Arid interior, Semi-arid with winter rain, Moist temperate with warm summers, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Regions
- Yarra Valley Water plants, Edible plants
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Summer
- Gardens
- Mediterranean