Thread: Halloween and or Gothic Plants & Flowers

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What would you guys classicfy as Halloween/Gothic plants & flowers? Some that come to mind, for me, are

Wolfsbane
Monkey Trees :3
Corpse Flower
Venus Fly Traps & other carnivorous flowers
"black" variations of flowers
others come to mind, too, but I wanna know what you guys think.

To go with the wolfsbane (aka Monkshood, aka Arnica) - garlic
Roses
Weeping Willow (look at old grave markers)
grapes

there's a book called Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart. Pretty much anything in there.

Calla lily

Foxglove also known as Dead Man’s Bells or Witches’ Gloves (digitalis is made from this - both a poison and a help depending on heart condition )

I'm working on putting together a haunted garden for one of my halloween themes. This year I found some cool Kind of creepy looking faux plants at Beverly's Fabric and Crafts that I bought. I haven't started working on the haunted garden yet but will pull out what I bought and post a pic of them. Might give you some ideas.

Have you considered the Jack O Lantern Fungus for your garden? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_olearius

Pitcher plants, venus flytraps, and weeping willows. I've always wanted a weeping willow in my yard.

Poison ivy, of course!

Fiddlehead ferns. I love the fact that they range from green to purple to black.

Juncus effusus, aka Unicorn rush, aka Medusa plant