I have a bed full of ophiopogon with a red barked acer in the middle, set into lush green lawn. It's quite striking. I like dark varieties, but I do like dark colours in all things(all the best bikes are black). They aren't for everybody, gardens wouldn't be so interesting if we all liked and planted the same things.
I'm with Fairygirl, I have a Molly Sanderson viola in a pot and I am waiting with anticipation as it is just about to flower. What I like about it is that it is unusual and striking.
I really need to buy some more and plant them in front of euphorbia polychroma for maximum impact!
Funnily enough I have just brought a black grass "Blackbeard" put it in a pot with some light coloured gravel on top - sits quite nicely at the bottom of my cherry tree. Don't associate it with anything maudlin - more striking and offers a contrast - in fairness it's not true black when the sun shines through it more of a deep blue colour.
I bought some cornflower seeds today Verdun, they're called 'black ball'. They are actually very dark red and they'll go lovely with sweet Williams at the bottom of a pale fence.
I've just recently sown some of those lisa. They're in pots and will get slotted into spaces where I currently have Narcissus and Irises, later in the year.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I am not a fan of black at all; as a 'colour' it is simply an absence of light and what really annoys me is that the only single Hollyhock you can buy is...black. If they can do the black one, why can't they do all those lovely subtle hard to name colours that are so traditional to Hollyhocks?
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I have a bed full of ophiopogon with a red barked acer in the middle, set into lush green lawn. It's quite striking. I like dark varieties, but I do like dark colours in all things(all the best bikes are black). They aren't for everybody, gardens wouldn't be so interesting if we all liked and planted the same things.
Black might go in a very modern garden. But I'm not a fan of 'modern' gardens so it's a no from me!
OKay I'm going to be the 'black' sheep here - I love my black viola 'Molly Sanderson'
I love very dark colours but you have to work them into your garden in a particular way to get them right.
All colours can be insipid, dull, garish, ugly, disappointing etc etc. It depends what else you associate them with.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm with Fairygirl, I have a Molly Sanderson viola in a pot and I am waiting with anticipation as it is just about to flower. What I like about it is that it is unusual and striking.
I really need to buy some more and plant them in front of euphorbia polychroma for maximum impact!
They look great with acid green foliage pootler. Alchemilla's good with them too.
I had a little green heuchera which I'd obtained as a seedling and it looked good with that as well.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Funnily enough I have just brought a black grass "Blackbeard" put it in a pot with some light coloured gravel on top - sits quite nicely at the bottom of my cherry tree. Don't associate it with anything maudlin - more striking and offers a contrast - in fairness it's not true black when the sun shines through it more of a deep blue colour.
I bought some cornflower seeds today Verdun, they're called 'black ball'. They are actually very dark red and they'll go lovely with sweet Williams at the bottom of a pale fence.
I've just recently sown some of those lisa. They're in pots and will get slotted into spaces where I currently have Narcissus and Irises, later in the year.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I am not a fan of black at all; as a 'colour' it is simply an absence of light and what really annoys me is that the only single Hollyhock you can buy is...black. If they can do the black one, why can't they do all those lovely subtle hard to name colours that are so traditional to Hollyhocks?