Photo showing the tall purple flowers forming on globe artichoke plants growing in a formal walled kitchen garden plot. This plant makes a real centrepiece in any herbaceous border or flower / ornamental vegetable garden, and produces these tall thistle-like edible flowers later on in the summer. Its Latin name is: Cynara scolymus. Apple trees, herbaceous flowers (flower / daisies / alyssum) and rows of cabbages, lettuces, onions, carrots and beetroot can all be seen in the background.