Create a Gorgeous Goth Garden
Have you been dreaming of a beautiful trendy Goth garden for your backyard? It's quite a popular trend these days and not just for Halloween anymore. Many homeowners enjoy looking at the interesting dark elements of a Goth garden year-round, and you may, too.
What is a Goth garden?
It’s a well-planned garden that’s made up of elegant black flowers, breathtaking stone arches, and ornamental wrought iron gates. It can also include accents like spiderwebs, bats, and gravestones.
Creating your own Goth garden
Here are several ways of creating a Goth garden for your yard:
Building a moon garden
Incorporating some ornate Victorian touches
Using lots of spooky-looking plants
Goth garden flower choices
A Goth flower has a black appearance when it's seen in a certain light. In most gothic settings, dahlias, evergreen hellebores, black pansies, and tulips combine everything from deep purples to reds and even pure blacks. And, when it comes to Goth flowers, who could possibly resist the Dracula's kiss iris? Also, rose lovers out there can enjoy growing beautiful black roses in their very own Goth garden. Finally, when it comes to flowers, don't forget to include some breathtaking bat orchids if you have a shady area in your garden. They offer a great eerie effect.
Other elements of a Goth garden
Thanks to the advancements in horticulture in the past decade, you will have many options for amazing shrubs, trees, and flowers on the market today that are ideal for a Goth garden. After all, your goth garden doesn't necessarily have to be populated only by flowers. The addition of all types of dark foliage and black plants can make up the perfect goth garden mix. They also help to make it feel like a vampire just might appear at any moment. In addition, black mondo grass that spills over the rim of some Victorian cremation urns could be the perfect addition to your Goth garden.
There are so many unique additions that can make it even more special, adding to the desired creepy effect, including:
Dark-colored veggies and herbs like dark opal basil, almost-black ibis hybrid lettuce, black Spanish radish, black krim tomatoes, and purple beauty peppers
Succulents like dragon’s blood sedum
Ornamentals with gory names like blood-lies-bleeding
How to get a no-labor-involved Goth garden
Sure, all of this sounds great but, if you're in the Southeast and are dying (no pun intended) for a Goth garden of your own, how do you get one without having to do all that work? Easy, just hire a professional like Arango Landscaping & Design to do it all for you. You'll not only save yourself time and sweat but also ensure a creative finished product delivered by experts in their field.
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