ooh, scary!

Jenny's black bromeliad

Jenny

In keep­ing with my dark pur­ple and black themes of some recent posts (like this one), here are a cou­ple pic­tures Jenny shared with me of some of her plants. This first one is a bromeliad with incred­i­bly striped, almost rep­til­ian leaves. The pump­kin pot is a fun touch for the our cur­rent season.

I’m glad it’s a plant, because if I encoun­tered an ani­mal that looked like this I might start walk­ing the oppo­site direc­tion. Real fast.

Begonia Black Fang

Bego­nia Black Fang

This one, Bego­nia Black Fang, is a lit­tle cud­dlier, even lit­er­ally fuzzy. Dark-colored plants can get lost in the land­scap­ing if you’re not care­ful, but com­bined with other inter­est­ing plants, like here, they can be great up-close specimens.

Thanks for shar­ing your pic­tures, Jenny!

October 22 2008 04:04 am | Categories: gardening | Tags:

One Response to “ooh, scary!”

  1. Lona on 22 Oct 2008 at 1:16 pm #

    Ewwww, it does look scary from that angle. :-)
    Love the Black Bego­nia. Alas I have no luck with Begonia’s. Can­not fig­ure it out.

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