https://www.projecttreecollard.org/
They grow great in California (and places with a similar climate), producing harvestable leaves year round.
(TBC: Love hobby gardening, community gardens are cool, I hear some folks are doing cool stuff with urban agriculture, just seems weird to imagine it as a ubiquitous second career)
"Brassica oleracea is a plant species that includes many common cultivars, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan."
I don’t know why I enjoy that fact so much but I sure do!
As to walking sticks, haven’t seen them used for that here, but people do use the dried stems as trellises for beans and whatnot.
Before we annoy any islanders, Jersey is not actually part of the UK.
More broadly, it's quite rare that things are this way round - usually when there's not much context the US interpretation applies more often than not.
How is it with plant genetics / breeding and taxonomy? When do you assert that something's a specific variety and apply a name to it?
