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If you’re sad that the peak gardening season is coming to an end, consider planting some fall showstoppers. Ornamental kale grows wonderfully in the fall and looks gorgeous too. If you’re sad that the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Flowering kale, also called flowering cabbage, is an ornamental plant that sports some vividly colorful, richly textured fall foliage from late summer ...

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 ...