Brown or Black

Dark plum-purple flowers which make a strong show

clump forming rhizomatous perennial with dark green leaves and, in spring, dark brown bracts with a long thin brown tip which looks like a mouse's tail

(A. durior) - heart-shaped leaves and twining habit. Rounded green flowers mottled with yellow purple and brown

Rare but hardy yucca-like plant with bluish green leaves and drooping racemes of bright green and coral-red flowers on tall stems

Deepest purple

Chocolate scented crimson-black single flowers borne on stiff stems

This newly bred variety produces even more of a chocolate scent and has a more compact habit

Flowers are greenish-yellow with a distinctive black eye

White centred purple-black, maroon or violet-blue flowers

Round, mainly upright red flowers

Brown-red

Rich red-brown foliage and cherry-red flowers

Rhizomatous perennial with very dark purple, almost black flowers in early summer. Fragrant

An attractive spreading ground cover plant with tiny fern-like fronds in a dense mat. Foliage is bronze-black or black flushed in the sun or green in the shade. Insignificant yellow flowers

Flowers are an unusual combination of yellow, green and purple

Compact, dwarf habit and very dark foliage

A very hardy variety which is excellent in coastal conditions with thick leathery leaves and deep purple flowers

Green foliage

Green new growth. Leaves then become purplish-brown

Flowering spikes of maroon flowers up to 2.5 feet

Bushy compact plant with red flowers and dark, almost black foliage. A most impressive new introduction

Glossy dark green leaves with yellow autumn colour. Bright red flowers with brown bracts when only hamamelis and parrotias are also in flower. A cross between sycopsis and parrotia which makes a fine if unusual addition to an early spring garden

Creamy-white flowers with some pink and red spots

Musk scented dark maroon flowers

Dwarf growing, deep maroon

Upright red-maroon flowers