Plants come in all the colors of the rainbow, but Chloe Hurst doesn’t seem to be too interested in the lively and bright ones. She’s the mastermind behind the popular Instagram account “Goth Garden”, whose love for dark plants helped thousands of people discover their under-appreciated beauty.
Hurst is a Canadian brand designer and graphic designer, who used her skills to transform her Instagram page @theg0thgarden into a huge sensation, with almost 300,000 followers. She enjoyed wearing dark colors from a young age, and she wanted her home garden to reflect the goth aesthetic that she loved so much.
Even though she enjoyed playing in the dirt from a young age, Hurst traces her obsession with dark plants to black petunias she noticed at her friend’s place. She was so fascinated by them that she wanted to make her entire garden black, so she started doing her research and looking for more plants with a similar aesthetic.
Hurst’s “goth garden” truly started blooming after she moved to her own house in Carleton Place, Ontario, and she now owes 50 plants in different shades of black. They add to the mystifying allure of her home, and taking care of them is the best part of her day because it’s a grounding experience that allows her to completely detach from the digital world and simply relax.
