may appear precocious in bloom(at a small size), but looks can be deceiving, as have had this ‘tree’ collard for several years. All it did was grow old but didn’t do much of growing ‘up’. Wasn’t even harvesting any leaves
i guess will just wait for blooms to produce seeds. May actujally propagate via cuttings but that would dwarf it further!
Those leaves would look, smell, and taste good in my kettle beside the one that has pinto beans in it!
the greens make good eating i agree, if only it branches out faster and produce more foliage in this desert. Thankful nonetheless it had survived a least two brutal summers and two long winters.
I love the colors on them!
I picked some wild black mustard yesterday in a yard. In a day or two I hope to visit a long time customer, and I know along his ditch will be lots of upland cress. So, I just may have something as tasty as your collards before the week is out. 
so bright and cheerful right? A pretty edible ornamental that is evergreen in our winters( if you’ve noticed the freezer-burnt purple amaranth it shares the box with on upper right hand)
if the blooms come to plenty seeds, will share some with interested gf members. Collards are a must-have if you can grow them, being long-lived perennials. Not many perennial vegies i can raise here
And yes, cress is something wish can grow on this arid and barren earth…
Wow thats impressive it stays alive all winter, It makes sense as we can keep collards and some other broccolis into november here i guess and thats probably colder than your entire winter!
The purple against the green with the yellow leaf lines i just always find so striking and they are such vibrant colors
i see you’re in denver, maybe it will lose some foliage there during your winters and be subject to considerable dieback, but hopefully resprout from its lower nodes if planted close to your house or grow it indoors in a pot. It seems to get by on part shade or dappled light(which is actually a must when grown in vegas)
I have it in a raised fabric planter and it looks like its going to come back? but definitely died down into the container. My extremely silly rhubarb is starting to wake up and i will have to dump some mulch on it tomorrow when it gets to 22 tomorrow. It may not be the same thing it was “purple collard” that i planted and only let 1 grow as i was not familiar with it.
Do you know how much oxalic acid it contains compared to other greens?
it is supposedly low in oxalates so can be eaten raw. It has so many positive attributes, but it being perennial is why i like it so much. Regular collards die after going to seed, and its greens are generally not as sweet(have to say though that tree collards will have an off-taste in vegas summers).
