Texas Gardening: Gardening with Native plants and Wild flowers of Texas., 1 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
Mayo on artichokes? Ick! ;-). I'll have mine with oil and vinegar thanks :-). The only thing I have against thistle are their pokey spiny Ouch! inducing leaves. But if planted towards the back of a bed, that needn't be a problem.....well, until it's time to cut them after they've died off, but that can be handled with a thick pair of gloves and pruning shears. :-)

Josephine, you're probably right about it being a different one. And ranchers probably take one look at any thistle and get their dander up LOL. Thanks for that clarification (and sorry to make you worry without reason).

Mel, yep, ya gotta get a baby one or you'll never pull that bugger out of the ground....or dig a proper hole to trasnplant it into either. But they grow so darned fast that a baby one should become a Mama one in no time :-)....and then all her seedlings will be popping out of the ground for you the following year.

-Julie

Here's a pic of one of our most common thistles here in Israel (now isn't it pretty mixed with all those yellow wildflowers? :-):