Learn how to care for your green friend

Ornamental kale

Brassica oleracea ornamental curly-leaved cultivars

Seasonal plants · Planned variety

Meet your green friend.

Ornamental kale is a biennial grown for seasonal foliage with frilled rosettes with vivid cool-weather centres. Its colourful curled leaves form a rosette rather than a floral display.

Why you’ll love it

Adds distinctive foliage texture to autumn containers.
Useful in containers or appropriately positioned garden beds.

A space where it can thrive

Outdoor garden or drainage-hole container in the suitable season.

Ask about availability

Availability, size, pot and price will be confirmed in store. Pictures illustrate the plant type.

Your care routine

Light

Full sun, ideally at least 6 hours daily.

Watering

Water when the surface begins to dry; soak, then let excess drain.

Soil & drainage

Well-drained potting mix for containers; fertile, freely draining soil in garden beds.

Fertilizer

Use balanced liquid flower fertilizer every 2–4 weeks during active growth at the product label rate; stop when dormant.

Temperature

Prefers cool growing weather; shelter fresh greenhouse plants from hard frost and avoid prolonged summer heat.

Humidity

Outdoor humidity is suitable; allow airflow and avoid prolonged wet foliage.

Through the seasons

Use for autumn foliage in Metro Vancouver; cold intensifies colour, but hard freezes and prolonged wet weather can damage rosettes. Keep drainage open and remove rotting leaves.

When your plant needs help

Cabbage caterpillars
aphids

Pets & little ones

Sold here as an ornamental, with treatment history unconfirmed; do not use nursery display plants as food. Keep away from unsupervised pets and children.

Grow with your neighbourhood store.

Independent, family-owned and right here in Uptown New Westminster. Browse before your visit and keep this guide handy at home.

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Care references

Guidance is a starting point. Adjust watering to your plant, pot, light and season; follow fertilizer labels and check outdoor cultivar hardiness.