Marvel at the Cabbage Flower (Patreon)

My brassicas are flowering.

I grew them both from seed, my cabbage and kohlrabi (on the left and right, respectively). In fact, the current cabbage may have been a seed I harvested by hand from a previous cabbage that I grew some years ago. I’m not 100% sure, but I’m, like, 85% positive that it is from one of the plants I let go to seed and then collected for the next year’s crop.

Cabbages are part of the brassica plant family that also includes broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts and probably a couple more that I’m not remembering.

I love how brassicas look identical when they’re young and then again when they’re flowering. Like, you’re not going to mistake a mature cabbage and Brussels sprout plant, but when they’re both just baby starts and then again when they shoot up that flowering stalk from their center like a flagpole and it freakin erupts in a cloud of yellow flowers? (basically) I D E N T I C A L .

Anyway, I just think brassica flowers are pretty.

I love the swoopy curves that the branches(?) make, it's very Art Nouveau-y (Or, rather... Art Nouveau is emulating the organic shapes and curves found in nature, such as the swoopy blossom-clustered branches(?) of brassica plants). I love how the flowers look like one giant cloud from a distance, but when you get up close you can see they're made up of hundreds of these little yellow bell-shapes all dangling off each stalk. 

Can you tell the difference? Cabbage flowers on the left, kohlrabi flowers on the right, brassicas through and through.

Unfortunately, some heavier rain brought a great swath of my beautiful blooming  branches down hard. But that’s ok! 

I just brought them inside.