Is there a dwarf broccoli? (and Romanesque failure)

Is there a broccoli or calabrese that does not turn into a cubic yard monster of stems and leaves with a few clusters of florets?

The ones I grew this year tasted good but they made netting impossible as they matured as they were heaving the nets up.

Also I grew a Romanesque cauliflower hoping for a low growing plant with a green spiralling flower heart but it came up like broccoli and with very few florets. Did I get the wrong idea about Romanesque?

Is Calabrese more compact than Broccoli?

So do you net broccoli but with a much higher net height - say five feet. This would be  good two feet higher than my normal brassica net for kale, caulis, swedes etc.?

can't take nets off here - the pigeons would have them straight away 

Norty girl 

I grow Kabuki a calebrase, summer cropping, doesn't grow tall, good size Central head and then lots of side shoots, still cropping now.

As far as I can tell, Romanesco are a bit like caulis: you're more likely to get a decent head in January than in the summer. I grew some T&M summer Romanesco and they were a disaster, but I always get a good head off over-wintered ones.

And yes, broccoli (Calabrese) is usually more compact than Romanesco, which have huge leaves in comparison with broccoli in my experience.

Thanks to New Shoot and Comfreypatch for their recommendations. Which one did you grow, Goosegirl'