A+ content important I would also suggest soft goth things such as
blackbird euphorbia (maybe tender here maybe niagara goths can have u)
black negligee bugbane
chocoholic bugbane (tbh all bugbane is prolific and spoopy and wonderful)
hellebore black swan maybe also tender?
black truffle cardinal flower
the ever fave heuchera obsidian
britt marie crawford ligularia FAVE JURASSIC LOOKING BB
and obv purple smokebush for soft goth smoke monster vibes
thank the dark goddess for you! Saving this post!
Black pearl pepper is another good one, I can attest that they look really cool in person. Aside from being ornamental, the little peppers are edible, and I think decently hot? I haven’t tasted them though so idk about that part
Black Pearl plants are EXTREMELY drought hardy and the peppers taste great, yes! I love mine even though I’ve given it less than stellar care; I’ve had it for…almost 10 years I think!
These pictures are so cute and so is the article.
Black Mondo grass also.
Also this is a tropical moat places but bat flower/ Tacca chantieri
This “cowboy on horseback lighting a cigarette” image (or as @dduane calls them, “Marlboro Men”) is one Johnson revisited several times:
But only this last one gives a reasonable impression of it being at night.
The others seem far too
bright and colourful for something mostly illuminated by a full (?)
moon.
Okay, I’ve never seen a wild-and-woolly-Western prairie moon, so I may be talking through my ten-gallon hat, but moonlight I’ve experienced in European countryside (fairly low city-light pollution) is far more bluish and monochrome, and produces really deep, dark shadows.
That said, a painting - or movie, come to that - which is so dark that the viewer can’t make out any details may be accurate, but won’t be attractive. There’s a TV Trope (of course) called “Hollywood Darkness” which examines it in more detail, but the Terry Pratchett quote “It has to be light enough to see the darkness” sums it up nicely.
An exceptionally warm, bright night-time palette does seem to be a Johnson trademark: according to Wikipedia it was even known as the “Johnson Moonlight Technique”.
Other artists went further in their representation of darkness. Here’s a John Atkinson Grimshaw painting of the River Thames by night…
…one by Albert Bierstadt of a Wild Western (the Oregon Trail) landscape…
…and one by A. I. Kuindzhi of the River Dniepr.
This, finally, is getting towards the too-dark end of things, but
still captures what full moonlight and full shadow really look like.
They aren’t elements of spooky stories for nothing…
The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?
Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.
I know I’ve been posting a lot about them, but I just wanted to share my stumpiest, fattest Adenium obesum (47 days) and the most baobab-like one.
I am still in awe of how cute these things are! They’ve gotten old enough to where I think it’s okay to take them out of the propagator dome. I’ve also been cutting back on watering as well and have started just watering them whenever they start feeling less plump and more squishy.
