The Goth Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening - Book Signing with Atlanta author Felicia Feaster)

From the venue:

The Goth Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening (Simon & Schuster) examines the contemporary goth garden trend that has fixated a new generation of Gen Z and Millennial gardeners. Documented on Instagram and TikTok, goth gardens feature blood red, aubergine and black-as-night plants, poisonous, parasitic and exotic botanicals and a moody, personality-infused attitude. The Goth Garden traces the roots of contemporary goth gardens to 19th century plant hunters and the obsessive Victorian approach to the natural world. Just as the Victorians—and gothic writers of the time like Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson—embraced both the wonder and gravity of nature, so too modern gardeners are creating iconoclastic and whimsical gardens that acknowledge the garden as a place of life, death, and renewal. The book features fifty goth garden plant picks from lethal castor bean to deadly angel's trumpet, beautifully illustrated by artist Irina Vinnik.