Cabbage Like Flower Plant. Cabbage flowers and kale flowers are very similar, but kale flowers have fringed (ruffled), serrated, or feathered edges on the leaves while cabbage flowers have smooth edges on the leaves. This plant looks more like its edible kale cousins, with loose growth and deeply serrated leaves in red, purple, or white.
In areas with mild winters like the low desert of arizona, cabbage grows best during the winter season. While cabbage flowers may or may not form heads, the inner and outer leaves show contrasting colors with the inner leaves taking on the vibrant colors. Seeds sprout in 4 to 10 days.
Soon, fresh sprouts will form, which can be eaten alone or added to soups, salads, or a dish of your choice.
Planted in the fall and winter when many of the summer blooms are fading or gone, they add often striking colors of red, purple, pink and green to the garden. The leaves have attractive textured and ruffled leaves. Space plants about eight inches apart. Called a provence rose but i think its nickname suits it best cabbage rose.due to the fact that the petals are thickly stuffed like the leaves of a cabbage.