This year’s California Spring Trials introduced the elegant black petunia called ‘Black Velvet’. Black flowers are rare in the garden and highly prized. This one really does look as if it is made of delicate black velvet.  Along with several other black pansies, Ball Growers has developed a line of dark colored pansies that are eye-catching and unique. Some of these other black varieties are already on the market. Use black petunias with plants of any color in the garden bed, edge them along a border as a dark outline or pile them into a decorative pot and place them in an entry were they won’t fail to capture attention.