Five Attractive Edibles for Containers
Don’t overlook these five tasty beauties when looking to enhance your pots
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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
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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
![close up of bronze fennel](https://images.finegardening.com/app/uploads/2014/04/31120100/fgSIP53-container-edibles-2.jpg)
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
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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
![close up of red Swiss chard](https://images.finegardening.com/app/uploads/2014/04/31120109/fgSIP53-container-edibles-4.jpg)
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.
Comments
good food.
Beautiful vegetables, just as ornamental as any flower!
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