This extract from AG 27 January 1968 looks at planting vegetables among flowers
IT is always fun to grow a few unexpected or unusual plants in the flower garden, and one way to do this is to try a few vegetables or plants closely related to them. Some vegetables are already accepted as border plants, such as the stately globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus), and the slightly smaller flowered cardoon, C. cardunculus, with its large acanthus-like leaves of a soft grey-green and purple thistle flowers in summer.
Another vegetable, which was used by Gertrude Jekyll at the front of), usually grown for forcing. It has wide, satiny, silver-blue leaves that are effective among soft-coloured flowers. Its own flowers are white and can be cut off to keep the leaves at their best. Another seakale is the tall , with clouds of white flowers in early summer – a fine plant for the back of a border.
