Among the flowers with truly coal-black petals are members of the iris and viola families. Once seen, never forgotten, Iris chrysographes has mesmerizing midnight black petals veined with gold ...

By Elena Chiujdea A Kent nursery has won a gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Kent Wildflower Seeds ...

It can make a big bush more than two metres tall and wide, and it is often seen as part of a shrub border ... has smallish flowers and rounded seed pods, red turning almost black.