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CYNARA 'IMPROVED GREEN GLOBE'

Name: CYNARA 'IMPROVED GREEN GLOBE'
Brand: Cotswold Garden Flowers
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A seed strain and therefore less reliably good for eating. Dramatic grey-green wintergreen foliage. Eat the flower buds or allow them to turn into large purple thistles Jun-Sep, short at 1.2m. Awful flavour.

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