Gardening for Bats (and other Gothic Organic Pest Controllers) Bats are important in nature, and terribly gothic. If you want to increase the bat population around your house, there are two basic things you can do: 1. Grow plants which attract night-flying insects and 2. Provide roosting areas for bats. Bats can consume up to [...]

The Witches’ Garden Of course, we all know witches don’t exist (1). Neither do vampires. But once upon a time, there were strange old women who lived on the fringes of society, and practiced herbal ‘medicine’, and not always for good. Normal, decent folk, who wanted to protect themselves, made sure they found out just [...]

The Night Garden Since you gothy types rarely seen the light of day, what good does a garden do you? Well, here is the answer: a garden that consists of night-fragrant or night-blooming plants. Of course, you can’t really see that black garden at night. The key color here is white. White glows in moonlight. [...]

Flowers Roses Taboo rose I’m sorry to say, there’s just no such thing as a black rose. I could probably write an entire column on near-black roses alone, since this seems to be the black flower everyone wants (but not me…I’d rather have true-black tulips) ‘Taboo’ claims to be the nearest yet, but I found [...]