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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.

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 ...

Summer’s roses are fading, flowering annuals have turned brown and have given up for this year, but there are ways to jazz up a fall landscape. Some favorites are cheerful pansies, and flowering kales ...

Flowering kale, also called flowering cabbage, is an ornamental plant that sports some vividly colorful, richly textured fall foliage from late summer through early winter. Its popularity has been ...

Most of us think of pansies, violas, dianthus, snapdragons and petunias to decorate our fall-through-early-spring landscape. Another nice addition to cool-season flower beds is ornamental types of ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

I have always been a bit skeptical of ornamental cabbage and flowering kale as a bedding plants. Perhaps I’m a bit “flower-centric,” but they never measured equally in my eyes to the beauty and ...

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. A member of the Brassica oleracea ...

Flowering kale and cabbage, colorful workhorses of the cool-season landscape, too often are relegated to spot planting, maybe the three-in-a-cluster routine. But ornamental kale and cabbage can offer ...