I gave the neighbor lady some extra tomato plants in the spring and she handed me a cabbage plant. It didn't do well, the bugs took it while I was not looking. Due to our wet weather, it sprouted out these two new growths that gives me a great foliage plant to look at but no cabbage.The creeping charlie gives it a great background for the cabbage leaves.
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The colors in the cabbage plant are very nice. I tried to grow ornamental cabbage one winter alongside pansies, but our wet winters along with our heavy, clay soil made them rot.
It's a lovely shade of blue-green anyway! :)
Once in a while I run across the decorative cabbage plants and I do like to plant them. I have seen them grow them at zoos for flowers and they then feed them to the animals in the fall.
At least it looks pretty, it is a shame it didn't give you anything tasty to eat though.
I grew some this year, we have our first allotment patch. They didn't turn out well though, as they got covered in white fly. So I dug them up... they didn't look as colourful leaf wise as yours.
I know people who plant cabbage for the fall foliage only in their gardens..it does keep fabulous color when everything else dies down.
The cabbage plant has a lovely color to the leaves. Our plants didn't produce any cabbages either!
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That's one pretty cabbage, Larry. Nice composition.
I like the leaves, such a striking blue with the purple veins standing out.
Now a days you have to sprinkle that Cabbage Dust on your plants everyday or you won't get a head:(
It's very attractive as foliage with those colours. I tried broccoli in a pot this year but caterpillars ate it.
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