The plants I grow on the allotment are mainly edible but to be honest I'm not interested in eating some of them! The Globe Artichokes are starting to form the large buds which can be eaten when stripped of their outer scales. Actually it's a vegetable I've never really developed a taste for and I will let the buds flower. The bulging purple flower heads are magnificent in late summer and bumblebees love to rummage through them.

 NB I generally include the Latin name of plants. Globe Artichokes seem to be referred to as Cynara cardunculus or Cynara scolymus or Cynara cardunculus 'Scolymus group'. Globe Artichoke is fine for my purposes.