Just for the flowers

Our neighbor who gave us our first artichoke plant commented that she didn’t eat them, just grew them for the flowers.

We got several good meals this year from the offshoots of that gifted plant. But this one got left on the stalk a little too long, so we brought it inside but it ended up in water instead of in a belly.

Now I can almost see why you’d grow an artichoke plant for the flowers.