William T. HlubikOrnamental kale and gourds fill a planter. Q. I picked up 10 ornamental kale plants to place in large pots in my front yard. Do these plants need any special care ? How long will ...

Recently, one of my blogging friends, Loree Bohl of Portland, Oregon, caught me by surprise with a challenge to all gardeners to create an interesting display using ornamental cabbage or kale.

Ornamental kale is a wonderful plant with large rosettes of purple, pink, red or white leaves that can extend the season for your flower beds or container pots.

Grow Ornamental Kale And Cabbage For Fall Color Edible cabbage is one of the most widely grown leafy vegetables. Along with its close relative, kale, cabbage is a cool-season crop, sown in spring ...

During winter, people might eye cabbages and kales for eating, but their relatives, ornamental cabbages and kales, can fill a different kind of hunger – visual cravings on cold, gray days.&#8… ...

Plant ornamental kales and cabbages for texture and color in the fall and winter garden. I planted several varieties and placed them in containers, the garden and even a window box. Surprisingly ...

The showy centers of ornamental kale and cabbage range in color from white to light pink, from dark pinks to vivid fuschia. ... especially if they are root-bound in their pots.

Ornamental Kale: The Edible Beauty. Ornamental kale is another fantastic choice for fall containers, and I have to say, I'm a big fan of its bold, ruffled leaves that come in shades of green ...

Kale doesn't flinch at cold. In fact, frost brings out this extremely hardy vegetable's full colors. Scottish, flowering and Siberian kales look good well into winter and can add to holiday color ...

Ornamental cabbage usually refers to selections that have smooth and more or less unruffled leaves. Kale, on the other hand, has ruffled, textured leaves and many have feathered leaf edges.

I have several pots of ornamental cabbages and kales decorating my front door, along with a few pots of mums. They look very nice. I'm wondering if we can eat them. It would be nice if they could ...

Along with the pansies, snapdragons and other cool-season flowers we enjoy during winter, another nice addition is ornamental types of kale and cabbage.