Goth garden

Does anyone have a goth themed garden? I would really like to see some awesome goth themed garden pics. Goole images didn't give me very many. I think this could be really beautiful with screaming red highlights peeking through the dark colored leaves and other blooms.

What have you got to show me???

I don't know of any but I can imagine some dark purple Datura in one.

I dont have one but I can visualize gothic arched trellises and arbors, grey stone benches and gargoyles, almost black roses, dark purple flowers of any kind, wispy grasses that look like fog, pitcher plants and Indian pipes, black elephant ears of various shapes, plants that drape and droop like weeping willow shape. All foliage plants would be dark purple or silvery grey. containers could be some of those pots shaped like heads.

Wow, steadycam3, awesome ideas!! I would have never even thought about doing a Goth garden but it sounds really fun now that you all brought it up. Someone please do one and post lots of pictures!!

I have no ideas, but wanted to say hello!

Awesome ideas Cam.

Hey Steph ;) How are y'all doin?

Great idea on the Datura too SM

You could use American Wisteria for an arbor. The blooms are virtually black and are very prolific, hanging down like grapes. The foliage is dark green.

This wasnt intended to be gothiky, but it kinda has that arch. Im working on a lima bean gazebo. The beds around the perimeter are the next step. I think old stone like they used to make walls and bleachers for schools here in East Texas would look cool in a goth type greenery. A heavily overgrown but managed mess of plants, like it hasnt been touched for ages. ohh the imagination takes us places

brando

Brando, my lima beans saw that gazebo and told me they "have" to have one of those. chuckle

I love the gazebo!
My white spider lily just started blooming for the first time yesterday and made me think it would be good, as well as maybe one that is "blood" red, with minimal foliage the boom would float.
What about weird plants or vegetables, I can't think of any varieties before my caffeine but when the kids were little we would grow oddities for them.

If we don't get some rain here soon, all of my outlying gardens are going to look very Goth!

There are plenty of "weird" looking succulents. Considering how dry it can get, they work well. Most of my really strange ones are young, but here are a few.

Kalanchoe: "Mother of Thousands" on some invasive plant lists. Sister brought me some from Galveston.
Variegated Aloe: brought back from Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Devil's Backbone (just planted cutting. Not too happy yet. Leaves are variegated with pink rims when happy.
Vertical leaf Senecio: really pretty purplish coloring around stem.

Please excuse the informal identification of the plants. I don't know the appropriate genus and species for each off the top of my head.

Just thought I'd give a shout out to some fellow Texans!

I always liked Morticia's gardens from the old Addams family, chuckle. Her thorns grew great!

Black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus) would work well in a shaded Goth garden.

Texas is too hot for black Mondo- it sulks til it dies.

LOTS of big thorns on some creepy looking succulents (Euphorbia).

I saw this today and thought of this post.
Tacca chantrieri

SM, that is an awesone flower!!! Put it in plant files if you caan.

Hmmm, I've never done that. I'll try.

I think I managed to add it.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3369/

Not exactly a goth garden, and not necessarily stuff that would live here.

I'm in a book group, and we've been reading a lot of futuristic, end-of-the-world, vampire weird stuff, and I've been wondering what would an end-of-the-world garden look like? Cockroaches, that's all I can think of.

I was fascinated by the Tacca chantrieri. Looked it up and it's in the orchid family. Sounds like it would be hard to grow.

Hi Catz....miss seeing your smiling face at RU. Hope you come Oct 20th.

For your garden I will suggest:
Dwarf Chinese Fringe Flower shrub (Loropetalum)
Heuchera any dark variety (these also pretty evergreen here)
Red Dragon http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1134/ (Give you cuttings in the spring)
Red veined Blood Dock http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1999/
Dark Columbine (can't find botanical name, but I have seeds, leaves are thick and dull, but still evergreen. Just started blooming in this picture)
Red Castor Bean http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/223258/ (Smockette had a picture once of a dark burgandy leaved one.)

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Flipping around a lot of sites today and somewhere I saw a black hollyhock. Know nothing about it other than it looked pretty cool and made me think of your goth garden. I'll see if it's in DG files but I know I was on a lot of other sites.

Did a search on DG for 'black hollyhock' and here's the first one that popped up, but there are many more.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/192974/

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http://www.anniesannuals.com/plt_lst/lists/general/lst.gen.asp?rs_start=0&prp_clr=7

list of purple-black flowered plants from Annie's Annuals.