study in black

those of you who dont know me, i am a Bee geek i love all things bee related and have several hundred items of some serious but mostly silly bees, my other passion is trying to get together a collection of "black" flowering plants, they can look quite dramatic if planted in the right position. this canna lily ignores all frosts and comes up year after year with this almost too perfect flower so i thought i would spoil her frock a little and blipped her after a shower