grow a gothic garden

I found this website which has a list of black plants, you can find it here: http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,,s1-5-18-944,00.html

you can also check out the lj community gothgardening.

Me and my dad planted the black morning glories yesterday.

I’ve bought three kinds of flowers; penny blacks, sooty sweet williams, and black violas. I might buy night-flowering morning glories, but I don’t have a trellis and I still might not be able to plant on the roof, in which case I’m ready for a windowsill gothic garden.

I’ve bought some black flower seeds, and I’m trying to install a small flower box on the roof… I’m getting there.

What people don’t understand is that the gothic aesthetic is about delicate, beautiful, dark things. What could be a better manifestation of this desire than to cultivate delicate, beautiful, dark life?

From the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show … Carniverous Courtyard. Mainly comprised of sarracenia but there are a few nepenthes hanging down the walls … not sure how well they’d do outside in Melbourne’s climate, they’d probably need cover. Only the sarracenia like it out in the open as long as they get lots of water. They really need it swamplike. Actually, I think I like the idea of a swamp garden!

I really want to do this. I found a website a few years back which I thought was excellent: http://www.gothicgarden.net/ because it has different gothic garden themes. In the mean time I’m starting up a collection of carnivorous plants, I’ve got a couple of tropical pitcher plants (nepenthes) inside and North American pitcher plants (sarracenia) outside, along with venus flytraps. Actually they’re quite pretty in an interesting kind of way.

I learned about gothic gardens maybe a year ago, and have been dying to start one ever since. Gothic gardens can be one of two things, or a combination of both: plants that only bloom and/or release their fragrance at night, or black/near-black plants. I think I’m going to do a combination of both. In the end, the garden will be a fantastic fragrant vision of white and black (and a bit of green, of course). I’m not going to just do flowers, either. I want a few black fruits like eggplant and blackberries, and one of those really wild nightmare-ish trees that look a bit like a palm and attracts bats. It would be perfect in the center, I think.

What will my landlord think?

bwahaha