A good thing about violets: when they grow in big patches, but because they’re so low to the ground and a dark color you don’t notice them right away and suddenly you realize that there’s a bit of deep purple carpet at your feet. Also when the bees go bumbly bumbly on them but they’re too heavy for the stem and they end up almost tipping it over.
Additional good things about violets: edible, can be sugared and used as decorations on cakes, boiled into a sweet syrup. Can be fermented into a light-pink colored wine.
Very important good thing about violets: gay.
A day with the roses ❤
- Helleborus Winter Jewel // Onyx Oddyssey
- Helleborus X Hybridus Winter Thrillers // Grape Galaxy
- Chocolate Cosmos
- Black Calla Lily
- Asiatic Lily
- Black Velvet Petunia
- Karma Choc Dahlia
Just a few flowers I’d put in the “goth section” of my dream garden, alongside gargoyles. I’d probably throw in some Persian shield for foliage, maybe some other dark coleus.
Crow and Sakura, by Yumi.