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| Cardoons harvested from the garden |
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| Cardoon heart |
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| Cardoons in flower |
The cardoon plant - the wild uncultivated predecessor of the globe artichoke plays a strong role in my cooking due to being so prolific each year in my garden.
I cut a third of the heads for me - to eat and to study the perfect geometrical patterns of the choke.
The rest are left to go to flower for the bees - and also for me. For the bees who appear to be blind drunk and unable to fly away from them they are so satiated. And for me because the smell when you walk past them on a summer evening is so strong it feels like breathing in pure honey.
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