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Kafkaesque_Meat
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:37 pm


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+ How to Create a Gothic Garden +
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+ Rose Bush Care: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Roses +
The gothic classic, beautiful red roses, are ideal for a gothic garden.
+ Growing Roses: How to Plant, Grow, and Prune Roses +
Another rose growing guide from The Farmer's Almanac
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Another gothic classic, lavender.
+ 10 Black Vegetables For Your Garden +
Just a side note that some of the links lead to dead pages, and they all seem to link to Amazon, so I would just google the vegetables you want to grow.
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Another beautiful flower that feels well at home in a gothic setting, especially a lovely 'black dahlia'.
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Okay so this short article is a parody article, but it might get you thinking about the potential symbolism of plants chosen for your garden.
+ How to Grow Pomegranates +
Pomegranates are a fruit associated with death due to it's presence in the myth The Taking of Persephone, however the fruit is also often cited as the likely "fruit of knowledge" from genesis, was associated with Jesus's suffering, death, and resurrection in European Christian motifs, and is associated with fertility and abundance in cultures throughout many cultures. Dwarf varieties can be grown in containers, but otherwise you will need to actually own the property you live on to enjoy this plant. The trees have dark green leaves, bright red flowers and fruit, and can look quite dramatic.
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Another fruiting tree rife with symbolism. They are associated with the goddess Aphrodite, and the god Dionysius, and fig leaves show up in genesis as the leaves that cover Adam and Eve's privates. The Bodhi Tree that Gautama Buddha sat under when he achieved enlightenment was a variety of fig known as the sacred fig. Thus, figs can be associated with fertility, sex, love, abundance, revelry, knowledge, enlightenment, among other things. Much like pomegranates, there are dwarf varieties that can be grown in containers.
+ Orchid Care: Watering, Lighting, Repotting, and More +
Known for being high maintenance, orchids are highly diverse in color, and form, and there are many haunting, gothic looking varieties such as the ghost orchid, the Dracula vampira, the Dracula roezlii aka Monkey’s muzzle, and the bat flower, as well as many different black, dark purple, burgundy, and blood red.
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+ Growing Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) - Advice from the Herb Lady +
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2022 6:54 pm


Oh wow, great information! c:

I actually am growing some black pearl peppers currently. The first gen seeds people get tend to be a bit of a mixed bag I learned, as the hybridization they do to make the seeds is questionable at best. However, after a little bit of extra work, I was able to get a third gen that was beautiful! They grow clusters of black peppers about the size of a dime (sadly couldn't get the "pearl" size and shape but I think having a bit more "meat" to work with in dishes is preferable for me anyway), have beautiful deep purple flowers, and the leaves stay a dark purple all the way through the life cycle with no greening. 3nodding

They're still more "ornamental" more than anything else, even though the peppers are totally edible and about the heat of a jalapeno, but I tend them more for their looks than for their produce. I'm hoping my next gen I'll be able to cultivate lots of babies, and then have a whole section of a garden full of them.

My "dream" flower would be to somehow mix the sunpuma purple princess foliage with a knowlians black flower. A purple leafed, deep purple flowered morning glory would be exceptional. Bonus points if I could get the "boxflower" mutation on one of the bulbs (where a morning glory only grows 4 of the standard 5 ribs, making it look like a square shape) and propagate that. It would be the most "strange and unusual" plant if it worked. rofl

DemonicOverture

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Kafkaesque_Meat
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:15 pm


DemonicOverture
Oh wow, great information! c:

I actually am growing some black pearl peppers currently. The first gen seeds people get tend to be a bit of a mixed bag I learned, as the hybridization they do to make the seeds is questionable at best. However, after a little bit of extra work, I was able to get a third gen that was beautiful! They grow clusters of black peppers about the size of a dime (sadly couldn't get the "pearl" size and shape but I think having a bit more "meat" to work with in dishes is preferable for me anyway), have beautiful deep purple flowers, and the leaves stay a dark purple all the way through the life cycle with no greening. 3nodding

They're still more "ornamental" more than anything else, even though the peppers are totally edible and about the heat of a jalapeno, but I tend them more for their looks than for their produce. I'm hoping my next gen I'll be able to cultivate lots of babies, and then have a whole section of a garden full of them.

My "dream" flower would be to somehow mix the sunpuma purple princess foliage with a knowlians black flower. A purple leafed, deep purple flowered morning glory would be exceptional. Bonus points if I could get the "boxflower" mutation on one of the bulbs (where a morning glory only grows 4 of the standard 5 ribs, making it look like a square shape) and propagate that. It would be the most "strange and unusual" plant if it worked. rofl

That's so cool! I have kind of a black thumb so each attempt I make to garden usually goes poorly, but I desperately want a beautiful garden filled with ornamental and useful plants.

I personally tend to favor flowers based on their smell/edibility over their look, but I do have to admit those purple princess plants look gorgeous! I especially love the deep purple of the leaves!

Honestly this year I might pull any potentially invasive plants from my plot, sprinkle a pollinator seed blend over the ground, and see what comes up. Hopefully I can at least get some usable herbs out of it. Right now all I have growing are garlic chives.
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