{"id":1177,"date":"2014-06-13T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T07:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2014-06-11T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:14:38","slug":"black-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/black-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Flowers and Foliage for Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Black is the new Black&#8217;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Black coral pea by Kew on Flickr, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kewonflickr\/7286306196\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8008\/7286306196_4ded372826.jpg\" alt=\"Black coral pea\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a child did you read &#8216;The Black Tulip&#8217; or try to grow a black rose? Well here are some tips to help you grow black plants in your garden&#8217;. Most of my black plants unfortunately are black because they are dead but that still leaves lots of other varieties to choose from.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Foliage<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Certain dark <strong>purple leaves look almost black<\/strong> including Cotinus Smoke Tree &#8216;Royal Purple&#8217;, Heuchera &#8216;Palace Purple&#8217; and Purple Beech Fagus Atropurpurea<\/li>\n<li>New Zealand flax phormium tenax has various purple varieties. There are also black mondo <strong>grasses nigrescens.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If you want black in the fruit and vegetable garden try a grape vine &#8216;Purpurea&#8217; or bronze fennel. If space permits the Black Walnut tree has <strong>black fissured bark<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/black-oat-grass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178\" title=\"black-oat-grass\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/black-oat-grass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/black-oat-grass.jpg 413w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/black-oat-grass-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Flowers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hollyhocks have a black variety not surprisingly called &#8216;Nigra&#8217; latin name\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Alcea rosea<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cosmos atrosanguineus<\/li>\n<li>Bowles Black violas are very popular and freely available<\/li>\n<li>Nemophilia menziesii <strong>&#8216;Pennie Black&#8217;<\/strong> is grown from seed and has deep purple to black centres with white edges<\/li>\n<li>Dianthus <strong>&#8216;Black &amp; White Minstrels<\/strong>&#8216; is also available as seeds from Thompson Morgan<\/li>\n<li>Fritillaria persica are dark flowered and provide a contrast with other flowers<\/li>\n<li>Aquilegia &#8216;Black Barlow&#8217; &#8211; Fully double violet-black flowers, are produced in late spring like small pompoms sat atop stiff, upright stems<\/li>\n<li>Tulips are still striving to be true black but &#8216;<strong>Queen of the Night&#8217;<\/strong>, Black Charm and Recreado come close.<\/li>\n<li>Iris &#8216;Black Taffeta&#8217; &#8211; Part of the Alan Titchmarsh Collection<\/li>\n<li>Scabious Ace of Spades is virtually black and has fragrant blooms that attract bees and butterflies whilst making impressive cut flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Hollyhock &#8216;Nigra&#8217;- Superbly dramatic; the tall spires bear dark maroon-black flowers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=black-flower-collection\"> More black flower seeds at Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14519\">Black Grass<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881929816\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881929816.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden<\/strong> <a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881929816\/richardpettin-21\">by Paul Bonine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credits<br \/>\nBlack coral pea by Kew on Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 &#8216;The delicate black flowers of the black coral pea (Kennedia nigricans) climbing the pillars in the main section of the Temperate House&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14521\" title=\"Kew 005\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Kew-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child did you read &#8216;The Black Tulip&#8217; or try to grow a black rose? Well here are some tips to help you grow black plants in your garden&#8217;. Most of my black plants unfortunately are black because they are dead but that still leaves lots of other varieties to choose from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}