Wednesday, June 4, 2014

As close to black flowers as you can get

I don't think there are any flowers that are truly black, but these hollyhocks come close.





Looks like the kind of thing Dracula might wear in the buttonhole of his tux when he's feeling sporty.

6 comments:

kc said...

Hollyhocks used to grow like weeds on the tall grass prairie farmland that was my grandfather's place (no, no black ones)...thanks for the reminder that I have a packet of seeds somewhere...

Paco said...

KC: Mrs Paco tried to grow these from seed for several years, with no luck. This year, however, they finally came through.

RebeccaH said...

Hollyhocks! That's what I forgot!

TimT said...

Very Goth, Paco.

I once had an idea for a SF story about an old man who lived in a garden of black roses that he had cultivated. That's about as far as I got....

Minicapt said...

Rebecca
The others:
"Daffodils, heart's ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden."

Cheers

TimT said...

Meadowsweet and gentian - good for flavouring your old country ales with, folks! Roses aren't so bad either, but don't try foxgloves: they've got a poison that screw with your heart!

As you were....