Looking for night blooming and black flower seeds

I'm doing a Moon Garden and a Gothic Garden and looking for the following :

Moon Garden flowers (night blooming):
Artemisia-(SilverQueen)
Artemisia (Silver Brocade)
Evening primrose
Shasta Daisy(Snow Lady)
Lamb's ears
Rose of Sharon
Day Lily
Night blooming Daylily
Catmint(Six Hills Giant)
Narcissus (May Rose)
Columbine (White Star)
Curry Plant
Horehound
Silver Horehound
Russian Sage (Filigran)
Russian sage (Longin)
Silver sage
Fringed Wormwood
Dwarf Iris (Snow Maiden)

Gothic Garden:
Any maroon, burgandy or black flower

Baylee,

Contact me...I have some shasta daisy, black columbine, black hollyhock, and a wheat celosia that has burgundy tinged leaves and burgundy blooms (beautiful!).

is there a night blooming *day*lily? Just a question, I've never heard of one.

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Never heard of or seen a 'Day Lily' bloom at night. Now there is a water lily called the 'Trudy Slocum' which is a tropical night blooming water lily. If anyone Does have a night blooming 'Day Lily' I sure would like to have one. Let me know where to get one at.

If you are looking for seeds, I can help with horehound, catmint, and rose of sharron, but I can't help with plants
Sandy

DUh...i just realized that we are on the seed trading forum...so ..yes, I can help ..email me
sandy

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I have some very dark burgundy double bloom columbine. It is almost black and the flower doesn't look much like columbine at all IMO because it has many layers of petals and no spurs.

I also will have (if I succeed in harvesting the seed) very dark purple and rosey bronze salvia. It makes a low (10"), bushy, dark-leafed plant and lots of large blooms (compared to most salvia).

My moonflower vines are finally growing well, so I should have seeds later on.

I'll also have 'black' and 'star of Yelta' (very dark purple) morning glory seeds.

Your night and goth garden are beautiful and creative ideas. I wish I lived close enough to see them when you have them going.

This message was edited Sunday, Jul 15th 1:24 AM

Okay, Now don't jump me, but why was the most fragrant of all nightblooming flowers left out of your night garden--Brugmansia?

Paris - I would love to have seeds from any that you could part with. I don't have a lot of things to trade with yet (zinnia, cosmos, mixed 4 O'clocks, bachelor buttons, mammoth sunflower and Mexican sunflower) but I will have some Love in a Puff vine seeds at the end of the growing season. My address is:
Sandi Hankins
112 Shady Bend Dr.
Lufkin, TX 75901

Brugmansia: I got the list I posted from a Moon Garden website - the Green Thumb bug just recently bit me so I don't know that much about flowers yet. :)

There is a cactus "night blooming cereus" you might like.

I just collected the columbine, but it will be a while before they others give me seed. Would you like the columbine now? You may want to start it as soon as possible. As a perennial, it might need more than one season to bloom.

The black morning glory gave me its first bloom today, and, though it is lovely, it is far from black. It is a deep fuchsia color. Star of Yelta is much darker -- the darkest morning glory to my knowledge. You might also consider Grandpa Otts, which is almost as dark with radiating fuchsia stripes.

Ivey's suggestion of cereus is an excellent thought. I would call it a succulent, rather than a cactus (there are no spines). I have grown them since I was a teenager. They are a long-term commitment, though. The blooms will form only on second-year growth, so, even in ideal circumstances, it will be two years before you get blooms. Many people wait 5-7 years though.

The blooms are truly worth the wait. They are huge, beautiful and worthy of ritual worship -- ok, maybe that is an overstatement.

All who own them hold them very precious. The large (nearly a foot across), delicate blooms resemble water lilies and have an intoxicating scent. And they bloom only one night. I have frequently dragged a group of night revelers back to my apartment (when I lived in the city) on the designated night -- with them complaining all the way -- only to have them thank me profusely for including them in so extraordinary a spectacle.

The bloom begins to open in the late evening -- perhaps 11:00. It is fully open by around 1:00. Then, by dawn, it is hanging limp and dead.

Excellent for gothic effect.

Yes there is most definatly a Night Blooming Day Lily!! I have just received some seeds and have not started them yet. I was only given 5 seeds but if I run across any more I will let you know. I also have Datura "Moon Flower" and I'm waiting for Black Columbine if you are interested email me and I will see what else I have!! Have fun with your new gardens!! Wish I would have thought of that!!

Dannie

I have night blooming Oenothera acaulis
http://www.cayugalandscape.com/gardencenter/perennials/oenothera.html
If you want to wait till fall I can send you a seed pod for postage.

Paris: I have some of the Star of Yelta morning glories now - I love them! And I'm planning on putting up a trellis with those running at the back of the Goth garden - and a trellis of Moon Flowers a the back of the Moon garden.

The cereus sounds absolutely gorgeous! I'll have to look for that one!

We recently bought an acre lot across the street from our house and I have about 1/2 of it that I'm doing my gardens on. I want to put a walkway and a bench between the 2.

hey Dannie, what's the name of that daylily? I wasn't trying to be smart, I have never heard of one. We sit out a lot at night and one close to the house would be great. Baylee, I have several different colors of daturas, if you're interested ~ white, purple and lilac.

Baylee -- I just read about a Japanese morning glory, named 'Dai' (good name for the gothic garden!), that is small and light gray. I thought you might be interested. The Latin name is Ipomoea nil. I think the originator had a sense of humor.

Paris: Oooooo.. gray would be great for the goth garden! I'll have to look that one up too.

tiG: Sure .. I'd love to have some of the daturas!

I have several seeds that are on your want list..also have black hollyhocks, black pennyroyal (has not seeded yet) and an assortment of others...email me back as I also have a gothic garden bed and a white flowering night garden bed...anyone who has also responded to this post with a variety of seeds I would also be interested in..email me as i have a huge list of seeds to trade that are not night bloomers or gothic seeds for anyone else who is interested and can send me gothic or white flowering plants.
Joydie

porchgreenhouse@hotmail.com

Hello Joyce,
this is bonnie in Newnan.

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