Winter cut flowers

Columbia Road

On a quiet day at work once, we were playing a game of ‘If you had a plant named after you, what plant would it be?’ (such are the conversations you have when you work on a gardening magazine). For me, my friend Chauney suggested an ornamental cabbage. He really is such a wag.

I almost wouldn’t mind being named after these cabbages, though – they look like roses.

Actually, there is a plant named ‘Veronica’. Is it a gorgeous rose or sweetly scented sweet pea? No. It’s a cauliflower – one of those lime green romanesco ones.

6 thoughts on “Winter cut flowers”

  1. On hindsight maybe a red savoy is more fitting. It has all the grace of an ornamental cabbage with extra lumps, bumps and wrinkles. Cx

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