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.

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 ...

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 ...

he gardener’s never-ending search for color, even in the bleak months of fall and winter, has brought cabbage and kale out of the kitchen and into the garden. With the help of hybridizers, these ...

If you're hoping to bring some color into your garden during the autumn months, who could blame you? Especially if you've had a bumper summer, with warm-season bloomers showering you with colors and ...

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 ...

Here's a sobering thought: It's not too early to be thinking about your autumn garden. Crazy as it seems, consider now how you will keep color around you this September and October, especially after ...

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 ...

Kale and cabbage, whether ornamental or not, are genetically the same thing. However, the ornamental plants are bitter to taste. Ornamental kale and cabbage are very popular and durable fall plantings ...

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 ...

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 ...