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Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 13:01
| My friend that lives in Spain buy this plant , anyone know the name? |
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| it looks like an ornamental cabbage which is bolting. Curiously I have just put 2 of these on the compost heap. They were in a bouquet and have shot up leaving the rest of the flowers behind. It is not a house plant. |
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| Flowering kale in bloom |
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- Posted by lola-lemon none (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 15:38
| That's kind of a cool idea though- it looks like flocked christmas tree. Bring a kale inside and starve it of light and let it bolt. voila- a white tree. |
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| lola-lemon - this particular ornamental kale/cabbage would be white even outdoors. It isn't light starvation which has made it so. They are widely used as winter bedding plants in cool climates. Bringing an ordinary culinary kale/cabbage inside would not have the same effect. The one in the picture is already opening some of its typical yellow brassica flowers. |
Here is a link that might be useful: White ornamental kale/cabbage
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- Posted by shear_stupidity 9B (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 18:23
| Flora~ So how could I achieve this inside my house? |
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| Buy an ornamental kale/cabbage plant in the autumn and keep it inside where it is too warm and to dark for it. It will etiolate and start bolting. The lower leaves will drop off as the ones in the OP's picture have done. It will continue etiolating and bolting, so its appearance will not be static. These things are intended as outdoor winter bedding and even there they start to bolt towards the spring. |
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- Posted by shear_stupidity 9B (My Page) on Wed, Feb 20, 13 at 16:36
| ... so you're saying I'd have to, in essence, torture it into looking like this. Got it. LOL! What is the point of winter bedding plants? I'm serious. I keep reading about it, but don't understand the purpose. |
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| The point of winter bedding plants is to have flowers, or at least some sort of colour, outside in the winter in addition to the permanent plantings. Just the same as summer bedding but in winter ;-) Here typical winter bedding might be polyanthus, pansies/ violas, Bellis perennis plus forget-me-nots and wallflowers for early spring and all underplanted with bulbs. |
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