Flowering cherry trees are prettier but fruitless versions of their fruiting counterparts. So are flowering peach trees. It seems only fair that some vegetables could also be prettier than culinarily useful. Gourds are ornamental squash fruit that can qualify as vegetables. Ornamental kale, Brassica oleracea, is an actual vegetable that is primarily ornamental.
Ornamental kale is also known as flowering kale, or ornamental or flowering cabbage. It is more foliar than floral though. Its dense foliar rosettes unfurl like big ruffly roses. Some are very ruffly. Some are intricately lobed. Foliar color can be white, pink, red or purplish. Ornamental kale is as edible as culinary kale, but a bit more bitter. It is a splendid garni.
Like cool season annual flowers, ornamental kale performs between autumn and spring. It grows quite slowly though. Seed that starts in August grows into seedlings for October. Seedlings that start in October only begin to get colorful during November, a month later. Their seemingly floral but foliar display ironically ends as they actually bloom for spring.
Tony Tomeo 
I like how you described ornamental kale as a “splendid garni.” 😉 That’s almost as cool as “garni festive” (pronounce fes-teev), the pseudo-French term you probably remember that I made up a long, long time ago! Hehee
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Oh, I felt rather guilty when I used that word, but thought it unlikely that you would notice such exploitation of the favorite word list. It could be reworded as the original, or perhaps as ‘garni splendide’ (pronounced ‘splendeeed’).
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