Gothy Gardening

The Guardian today has an article about the first black hyacinth being cultivated and now commercially available. It’s taken at least 16 years, and the three “ancestor” bulbs were sold for the gob-smacking sum of £50,000 each.

I can’t deny, I’m a bit of a goth when it comes to a lot of plants, and the idea of a black hyacinth really quite appeals to me – in a similar way to the deep-red passion flower variants and so on that you now see. I wonder what other stuff we can come up with?