The cardoon is from the thistle family and I grow a beautiful plant in my garden. The leaves are edible and the flower head can be used to make cheese. (Here’s an article from Smithsonian Institute.) My cardoon linocut print was first an original pencil sketch and then a watercolor from my series “Drawings from our Edible Gardens.”

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Original linocut with watercolor 8" x 10" with a border around the image.