Brown or Black

Dark plum-purple flowers which make a strong show

Tuberous perennial with hooded, white striped and brown-tinged flowers

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

Probably the nearest to a black magnolia flower that you will ever see. Quite extraordinary. Slow growing but very floriferous

Flowers are an unusual combination of yellow, green and purple

Flowers purple-brown inside and greenish white outside

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

Flowers are without petals but have attractive yellow, red-anthered stamens enclosed by brown scales. An interesting complement to early flowering hamamelis or parrotia

Creamy-white flowers with some pink and red spots

Musk scented dark maroon flowers

Dwarf growing, deep maroon

Upright red-maroon flowers