Tag: Angelo Pellegrini
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Cardoons: An Edible Ornamental
Joe, the Cardoon, and I Nearly 10 years ago I grew two lovely cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) plants here at the house. An easy plant to grow from seed, I jokingly referred to it them as ‘Cardoonicus Maximus’ due to their imposing stature. Though clearly not at all the proper technical name for the plant, it stuck. If…
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To Love One’s Vegetables and Philosophy Too
My Sicilian relatives never lived on the East Coast. They immediately headed to Oregon where they’d heard the soil was good and cities were open for business. They were truck farmers vending fruits and vegetables during the first generation, a dream that would never have been possible in Sicily. My grandfather Salvatore (aka Sam), the…
Ann Loves Plants 