Some of the best choices we can make for reliable late fall and winter color are cabbage and kale. I’m not talking about the regular vegetable garden varieties, though these are quite pretty in their ...

It remains among the more humble of garden vegetables, the court jester next to the regal rose and rhododendron. But the very cold-hardy quality that made the cabbage a dietary staple of ...

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

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, they ...

Why keep your flower garden and the vegetable plot separated? Learn about growing ornamental kale that is both delicious and beautiful. As you’d imagine, few food plants meet all these criteria.

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 ...

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. “They’re ...

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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, they ...