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Ornamental edibles are a wonderful way to get the best of both worlds. The addition of these beauties to your containers helps to flesh out otherwise humdrum designs—and you can eat them, too! Take a look at these unusual edible plant varieties to work into your container designs.
1. Cabbage
Photo/Illustration: Kerry Ann Moore
With its large round heads that come in green, red, or both, cabbage adds a strong shape that can highlight the looser forms of other plants.
2. Bronze fennel
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
The plumes of bronze fennel lighten up dense plantings with their airy structure, while their dark color keeps them from blending into the background.
3. ‘Redbor’ kale
Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
The distinct upright habit, curled leaves, and strong color of ‘Redbor’ kale provide plenty of options to play off of when designing a container.
4. Swiss chard
Photo/Illustration: Stephanie Fagan
It’s wonderful that Swiss chard’s crinkly upright leaves provide a dose of shape and texture, but even better are the colorful stalks that hold the foliage aloft.
5. Lemon verbena
Photo/Illustration: Wikimedia Commons
With a can’t-miss upright form and attractive, lemon-scented foliage, lemon verbena adds a strong visual statement to any pot it is in.
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good food.
Beautiful vegetables, just as ornamental as any flower!
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