Gothic balcony gardening photo shoot - looking for edible black plants

Rehearsing costume and light, ready for a Gothic Garden stage set to be assembled

What, I wondered, did young Urbanized Goths do in the day? Maybe what they need is a spot of Gothic balcony Permaculture to perk them up - black roses for turning into fragrant Jam, black snake beans to rip into, glossy eggplants, and then a good swathe of menacing thorny roses, blood red, clambering over the balustrades to keep out marauding possums.


Drawing in black just doesn't work for me. No worries, making a photo would be even more fun, I will meet creative people, and we might be able to have a Gothic feast afterwards.


Can you help me? Here is my beg, borrow, trade or buy wish list:
Black or purple Fruiting plants, full size, dug up:
Eggplant,
black beans,
Potted Avocado,
Pomegranate,
black-stemmed taro,
purple asparagus
blackberries (any left?)
Black, Dark red, dark purple flowering plants
Red flowering roses, thorny preferred.

Pots, to cover in shiny black plastic, and tied with white ribbon

Black pebbles (or somebody to buy them off me after the shoot, cheap)
or Lots of Dark fallen leaves, to cover the bricks,
or - your other good, mysterious idea

From the Gothic Gardening Website

Wrought iron gates, magnificent, to hide the reality of the walls
Black Umbrellas, to hide the rock edging, to give a bat-like menacing feel, or to hang like storm clouds above, for a nice touch of oppression.

Melbourne GPO awash in Umbrellas, by jikon
Other amazing umbrella art on diggphotos

If I'm lucky, a sea monster-like black air conditioning pipe might writhe though the lot.

Artistic and efficient volunteers to help get it all together would be angels (black).

For all your black gardening ideas and advice, there is a substantial and beautiful Gothic Gardening website to direct and inspire you with plant names and uses. If there is enough vivid green, and splashes of white and crimson, it could look captivating. Here is a list of black plants,
but I myself wouldn't like black leaves - too much like bin liners. Fruit is fine, because its glossy. Green emenates life.

Thank-you Amor e Locura for lending me the gorgeous gates