Cynara cardunculus (cardoon)
The cardoon is native to the Mediterranean basin and prefers a dryer climate. It's really just a giant thistle and this lovely specimen is growing by the seawall near Granville Island in Vancouver. The cardoon is a bold, architectural plant about six feet tall but it prefers to be out on its own and not surrounded by other tall plants. The first photo shows a honeybee and a bumblebee on the same flower but this is not unusual. Pollinators love cardoons.
The cardoon has been eaten since ancient times but mostly the stalks, which were blanched and eaten like celery. Homer talks about cardoons in 800 BC. One type of cultivar gives us the globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) with a large flower bud used in many Mediterranean cuisines. However, if a globe artichoke is allowed to flower, it instantly becomes hard and inedible.
I'd love to grow a cardoon in my garden but I have nowhere to put it. I face the same dilemma that every suburban gardener will recognize: so many flowers - so little space.
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step aside, everyone, we're no longer making gingerbread people this year.
this year, we're making gingerviduals
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Granville Island, Vancouver BC
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Vancouver Skyline from Granville Island Market, 2016.
Great place for an alfresco lunch on a pleasant afternoon.
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Just a bit of Sunset
Just a bit of Sunset
The sunsets are not always amazing, but they are always beautiful, well to me at least. I dunno why, but sunsets over a city just do it for me. I like big cities and big city views. This view has a lot going on because the foreground takes up so much of the space, but there is just enough beauty up top to make the picture work.
Thanks for stopping by, Rob
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Waterfront Theatre, 1410 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
CAROUSEL THEATRE
presents
THE CAESAR CONSPIRACY
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEATH OF JULIUS CAESAR AS REPORTED BY W. SHAKESPEARE
DIRECTED BY
SUSAN FERLEY
DESIGNED BY
DOUGLAS WELCH
COSTUMES BY
CHRISTINE THOMSON
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The Waterfront Theatre
Feb 4 To Feb 27/88
Reservations 685-6217
Photo by David Cooper
Part of Perry Giguere 'Perry the Poster Man' collection
SFU Archives, MSC197-0869
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I went to Granville Island the other day and took some snaps.
(The top two sculptures are from BC Blacksmith)
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