From a 50p packet of seeds came this wonderful #cardoon. It's surrounded by bronze fennel in my edible front garden project, edged with golden marjoram, chives and there are blackcurrants in there too. Fab leaves and pollinators love it.

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More cardoon! It's early evening and the bees are buzzin'. I love sitting here in my chair watching them work. It's pretty cute actually, I don't know what I pictured them doing but it wasn't this: they fly into the purple fronds at speed and then roll around like they're showing off their moves. I'm only assuming they're doing bee work, it's entirely possibly this cardoon has become the world's first Bee Disco. Which I fully support btw.

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Another cardoon photo because it's just so dang perty. :)

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Here's a video I took of the ginormous ~9ft cardoon in housemate's garden. The thing is just massive, I watch people stand on the sidewalk and point it out to their companions, their mouths open. The visible part here is maybe a fifth of the actual plant. It's filled with bees today, which makes me so happy, you can see them zipping all around. :)

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