Alcea rosea 'Nigra' (Hollyhock 'Nigra')
'Nigra' is an upright biennial or short-lived perennial with rounded, lobed, rough, mid- to dark green leaves and long, terminal racemes of large, dark maroon flowers in summer.
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0.75m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nigra' (Hydrangea 'Nigra')
Other names: Hydrangea macrophylla 'Mandshurica'
'Nigra' is a small deciduous shrub with distinctive purple-black stems and dark-green ovate leaves. In summer it bears rose-pink (or bluish in acid soils) flowers in rounded flower-heads.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Fritillaria pyrenaica (Pyrenean fritillary)
Other names: Fritillaria nigra
F. pyrenaica is a bulbous, herbaceous perennial with upright stems bearing whorled, lance-shaped, grey-green leaves and, in late spring, nodding, broadly bell-shaped, purple-brown, checkered flowers with recurved petal tips, yellow-green within.
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0.1m max. spread |
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0.45m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Ribes nigrum 'Noir de Bourgogne' (Blackcurrent 'Noir de Bourgogne' )
Other names: Ribes nigrum 'Black Burgundy'
'Noir de Bourgogne' is a vigorous, open, somewhat spreading, deciduous shrub with lobed, mid-green leaves and clusters of insignificant, yellow-green flowers in mid- to late spring followed by firm, round, glossy, black, edible fruit ready for harvest in midsummer.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra' (Black cherry plum)
Other names: Prunus 'Pissardii Nigra', Prunus 'Blaze'
'Nigra' is a medium, rounded, deciduous tree with dark purple leaves. It bears single, pale-pink flowers in early spring and has purple-black twigs.
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12m max. spread |
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12m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Eva' (Elder 'Eva')
Other names: Sambucus nigra 'Black Lace', Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Black Lace', Sambucus nigra 'Eva'
'Eva' is an upright, deciduous shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves divided into ovate to elliptic, deeply toothed, purple-black leaflets and flat umbels of fragrant, pink flowers in summer followed by purple-black fruit.
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3m max. spread |
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3m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Gerda' (Elder 'Gerda')
Other names: Black elder 'Black Beauty', Sambucus nigra 'Black Beauty', Sambucus nigra 'Gerda', Sambucus nigra f. porphyrophylla 'Black Beauty', Black elder 'Gerda'
'Gerda' is an upright, deciduous shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves divided into three to seven, ovate to elliptic, dark purple-black leaflets and flattened panicles of tiny, aromatic, pink flowers in summer followed by spherical, glossy, black fruit.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Sambucus nigra 'Marginata' (Elder 'Marginata')
Other names: Black elder 'Marginata', Common elder 'Marginata', Sambucus nigra 'Albomarginata', Sambucus nigra 'Variegata', Variegated elderberry
'Marginata' is an upright, bushy, deciduous shrub with dark stems bearing pinnate leaves divided into toothed, dark green leaflets with irregular, yellow to cream margins and flattened panicles of fragrant, white flowers in early summer followed by round, glossy, dark purple to black fruit in autumn.
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3m max. spread |
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3m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Allium atropurpureum (Very dark purple allium)
Other names: Purple flowered onion, Dark purple allium, Allium nigrum var. purpureum
A. atropurpureum is a clump-forming, deciduous, bulbous perennial with strap-shaped, grey-green leaves and sturdy, erect stems bearing dense umbels of deep reddish-purple flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Vaccinium angustifolium (Late sweet blueberry)
Other names: Lowbush blueberry, Low sweet blueberry, Narrow-leaved whortleberry, Sweet-hurts, Early blueberry, Vaccinium lamarckii, Vaccinium pensylvanicum, Vaccinium nigrum, Vaccinium angustifolium var. nigrum, Vaccinium angustifolium var. laevifolium
V. angustifolium is a compact, spreading, deciduous shrub with broadly elliptic, glossy, blue-green leaves turning purple in autumn and racemes of bell-shaped, pink-flushed, white flowers in late spring and early summer followed by blue-black fruit.
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0.9m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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