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Plant: Songbird Red Ornamental Kale
Grown in-house
Ornamental Kale · Brassica oleracea
Price in store
Size: 1 gal
Light
Full Sun
Bloom
SpringSummer
More about this plant
Songbird Red is an ornamental kale, a Brassica oleracea grown for its ruffled, waxy rosettes of foliage in the cool season. It prefers full sun and moist, well-drained soil, tolerates salt, and suits containers, patios and mass plantings.
- Full Sun
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6a-9b
Plant description
Songbird Red is an ornamental kale, a Brassica oleracea grown for its ruffled, waxy rosettes of foliage in the cool season. It prefers full sun and moist, well-drained soil, tolerates salt, and suits containers, patios and mass plantings.
- Flowers
- Small yellow four-petaled flowers borne on stems in spring and summer; edible.
- Foliage
- Species description: simple, alternate, rosulate leaves over 6 inches long with fleshy, waxy, hairless blades and entire, lobed or undulate margins.
- Native range
- Western Europe
