Make your fall and winter garden fluffier and more colorful by filling it with ornamental kale and cabbage. The variety of color, height, and texture you can achieve is astounding.

Many flower kale varieties will remain undamaged down to about 20 degrees — and as the weather cools, their leaf colors typically become even more intense.

Flowering kale and cabbage, also called ornamental cabbage and kale, are two colorful stars of the fall garden. You can actually eat them, but they're really grown for their pretty leaves.

Once it has gone to seed, the kale plant will die, as that’s what annual plants do. To extricate a big dying kale plant out of the ground is sometimes difficult, even with a garden fork.

When it comes to kale, ... and among the nearly 600 vegetables, grains, herbs and flowers in the Adaptive Seeds catalog that she founded in 2009 with her partner, Andrew Still.

1 / 1 As kale plants flower in the spring, they attract and nourish bees and other pollinators as well as the beneficial insects that help to control garden pests. HELEN CHESNUT Advertisement.

The flowering seed-heads of kale, cabbage, collards, mustard, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and other bolting brassicas have got a whole lot of delicious going on. Skip to content.

On the other hand, edges in the plant, like the crinkles of kale, can enhance the electric effect. If you really want to get sparks, says McGiffen, cut up the kale, "leaving sharp edges, ...