Cardoons in the garden of Villa Augustus, Dordrecht. Courtesy of Flickr user Henk Kosters. Found in the wild along the Mediterranean, from Morocco and Portugal to Libya and Croatia, a cardoon is a ...

Cardoon is like a wild thistle that has been treated with the same magic as Jack's beanstalk. It's a rather large (and sharp) plant with a wide girth that requires lots of personal space.

The garden articles throughout your paper and especially in Thursday’s Home section usually fall on open ears. Surprisingly, one of the issues you have recently neglected to value appropriately ...

Most years, I start some onion seeds and perhaps a few artichokes indoors in February. This year I will also start some cardoon seeds at the same time. Cardoon, which is a lovely looking plant ...

With the Castroville Artichoke Festival in full swing this weekend, what better time to celebrate the wonders of the edible thistle? The ubiquitous 'Green Globe' variety of Cynara scolymus ...

This unique Mediterranean veggie looks like celery but has a more savory taste iSTOCKCardoons may look like celery, but they taste more like artichoke hearts and can be prepared in the same ways.

A few supermarkets in the New Orleans area stock up on cardoons in advance of St. Joseph's Day. The cardoon is the natural form of same species as the globe artichoke. It has been domesticated in ...

With their long, spiky, silvery green stalks, cardoons look like celery gone wild. The vegetable is actually a member of the artichoke family, but you don’t eat the flowering buds — you eat ...

With their long, spiky, silvery green stalks, cardoons look like celery gone wild. The vegetable is actually a member of the artichoke family, but you don”t eat the flowering buds — you eat ...