Tall plants get taller and more vigorous every year in cultivation (can resemble a shrub!) with thick green stems and smooth margined wavy edged white veined leaves. The thumb sized dark purple sprouts are best harvested when 10-18 cm long. Stronger tasting than regular broccoli, but that means...
75 days. Not your regular broccoli! Bright lime green heads grow where each floret takes on a fractal spiral so the entire unit looks like a series of raised conical swirls. Very dramatic. Doesn't taste like broccoli or cauliflower, but has a delicate nutty taste. Great raw for dips, lightly...
Our local strain of wallflowers are very much perennial with repeat blooms year after year from June up to frost. Very fragrant. Colours range from solid velvety golden yellow to a rich reddish-brown, with the odd bicoloure. Evergreen in a protected spot where the snow can't squish them and snap...
A very pretty edible with slightly savoyed leaves. Strong-ish spicy flavour that is great in salads, stir-fries, pickled, and other dishes limited only by your imagination. Very hardy, so its good as winter greens. Cooler the weather, the milder the flavour. Slow to bolt. Plants grow fairly...
Grows to 2 meters tall; 1 meter wide. Blue green oak leaf type brassica with purple veining. Very ornamental and very edible. Very thick stems can withstand heavy snows.
