# Perennial Artichoke harvest Time! **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** breeding, artichoke\ **Created:** [July 1, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044 "2025-07-01T13:57:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thomascornnelissen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/thomascornnelissen/32/12827_2.png) [@Thomascornnelissen](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Thomascornnelissen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/1 "2025-07-01T13:57:54Z")
![1000058365](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/1/1f26b5f669be0aae615d49270482ccf830f0abb2.jpeg) ![1000058375](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/0/0ab5e2826180d3539f509ab769b72e417540f68c.jpeg) Just wanted to share my excitement - these perennial artichoke plants are going strong in their 4th year here in the Netherlands! They’re a Cardoon × Artichoke hybrid I grew from seed, and out of the original batch, six plants have survived our often chilly and wet winters. Most globe artichokes tend to die off after a year or two in our climate, but these have proven surprisingly hardy. The plants are massive, beautiful, and a total pollinator magnet when in bloom. I’m hoping to start selecting seed from the hardiest ones to develop a local-adapted perennial strain. Anyone else experimenting with perennial or climate-tough artichokes? ---
**Author:** ![Hugo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/hugo/32/2985_2.png) [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/2 "2025-07-01T14:26:29Z")
I got mine some 8 years ago from a seed swap in Holland. They stand two and a half meter tall. I tried Artichokes as well and have the same experience, they’re scribbly things that hardly flower and die after a couple of years. I want them to pollinate mine anyway, because people say their flowers taste better, although, funnily enough somebody from south of France who’d eaten them all her live said they were perfectly fine. On my road trip into Spain i found quite some (artichokes i guess) that had escaped people’s road side food gardens and had established themselves in the wild. I figured that they must be some tough cookies surviving those droughts and heatwaves, i found seeds and brought those back home, one seems to be surviving. So yes, i do experiment with them and find that your flowers differ from mine. I got some 12 growing for now, but keep adding to the project. I like that they get so big and shade out grasses trying to enter my plots. ![IMG_20250627_181233](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/5/5257ade79f530557224a469ec318855b6244150e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Thomascornnelissen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/thomascornnelissen/32/12827_2.png) [@Thomascornnelissen](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Thomascornnelissen)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/3 "2025-07-01T14:30:44Z")
Incredible! How wonderful, let me know if you ever want to Swap some seeds ---
**Author:** ![anna](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/anna/32/1868_2.png) [@anna](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/anna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/4 "2025-07-01T19:05:11Z")
I’m working with artichokes in a climate they love. But here are some pictures of my favorites. I have trouble getting seed from the larger ones, they tend to rot in the middle before the seeds are ready. Cardoons set seed much more easily. ![IMG_1586](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/6/6dc75039af0ccee0a1579de57b67700696722999.jpeg) ![IMG_7899 3](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/4/4094de11e2ffc5b503c81480b8da978e25ec0b32.jpeg) ![IMG_1911](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/8/8a849594f45c9c6af3acd88544fd2b63b6196027.jpeg) ![IMG_0633 2](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/6/6f0b2463d46cf6538cb3f30dc18898d3ee35b4bf.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![anna](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/anna/32/1868_2.png) [@anna](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/anna)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/5 "2025-07-01T19:05:58Z")
how big are these? they look like cardoon but bigger? ---
**Author:** ![Hugo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/hugo/32/2985_2.png) [@Hugo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Hugo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 7:48am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/6 "2025-07-02T07:48:42Z")
What a great colors and shapes. Can’t wait to see what they’ll become crossed with your cardoons. My biggest ones are like 4 inch 10 cm. ![IMG_20250702_094435](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/5/5bd3ec2c0221e14a403f1933f90b02e34ca3de22.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Julied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Julied](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Julied)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/perennial-artichoke-harvest-time/4044/7 "2025-07-02T16:06:53Z")
Serious case of artichoke envy! Thank you all for sharing your projects 🤩 Early days for me: I’ve started 4 varieties from seed (2 green, 2 purple). Hoping they survive and I can get seed from them in the future…