Hate them. They clean give me the HeeBee GeeBees. I found some when I was clearing a particularly overgrown patch and was in two minds whether or not to keep them. I need all the plants I can get so they're still there....I just don't look!
I'm not above a bit of creepiness but I do like things to be called the actual colour they are which puts me off black flowers...if they were called dark purple I'd probably like them
I like dark foliage though, introduced a bit of it this year in an attempt to make a white border more interesting.
I love those really almost black hellebores but for impact in the garden the lighter ones win every time. I like ophiopogon, but as Verdun says, is lost in the garden.
I first grew ophiopogon over 30 years ago when I planted some in a gravelled border I put round a new pond. It looked stunning and spread happily. I still like it but it does need to be in a pot or trough or against a pale background.
I like having a rhythm of dark purple and golden foliage through the garden and love the white flowers of dahlia After Eight against its dark foliage plus the penstemon digitalis that has a similar colour way earlier in the year.
Dark coloured flowers are fine as long as they have a background that shows them up and they are offset by bright flowers with dark centres that pick up the purple/black.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hate them. They clean give me the HeeBee GeeBees. I found some when I was clearing a particularly overgrown patch and was in two minds whether or not to keep them. I need all the plants I can get so they're still there....I just don't look!
I'm not above a bit of creepiness but I do like things to be called the actual colour they are which puts me off black flowers...if they were called dark purple I'd probably like them
I like dark foliage though, introduced a bit of it this year in an attempt to make a white border more interesting.
HeeBee GeeBees
I love those really almost black hellebores but for impact in the garden the lighter ones win every time. I like ophiopogon, but as Verdun says, is lost in the garden.
But not creepy, no
In the sticks near Peterborough
I first grew ophiopogon over 30 years ago when I planted some in a gravelled border I put round a new pond. It looked stunning and spread happily. I still like it but it does need to be in a pot or trough or against a pale background.
I like having a rhythm of dark purple and golden foliage through the garden and love the white flowers of dahlia After Eight against its dark foliage plus the penstemon digitalis that has a similar colour way earlier in the year.
Dark coloured flowers are fine as long as they have a background that shows them up and they are offset by bright flowers with dark centres that pick up the purple/black.
Somebody posted this pic here a little while ago so I am having a go doing the same next year!