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"Rhiannon S" writes:
| Hi all, sorry to bother you guys again.

That's what's this newsgroup's for :-)

| I was wondering if any of you guys could possibly shed light on the
| hardiness of a couple of plants. I was looking at rudbeckia occidentalis
| "green wizard" and a Cardoon in various places online and off. Depending on
| where you seem to be shopping, both of these have been marked as hardy
| perenniels, tender perenniels, half hardy-perenniels, or even half hardy
| annuals, I was wondering if anyone here had any first hand knowledge of
| these plants as it's now getting a tad confusing?

Cardoon is hardy in most of the UK, at least with modern mild winters.
I grew it, as a vegetable, and compared it unfavourably with repulsant
snozzcombers.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.