DL; 41 'Dark' Recolours of 9 Garden Meshes.

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Textures: Dragon Age, Sherlock Holmes & Jack the Ripper and Apollo's 'The Secret Garden'.
Meshes: 'Fugly Fern' + big / small 'Mighty Miscanthus' from Buggybooz's 'Verdant Velvet - Garden Greens' (not included), Cat3cm's 'Water Tree Branches' from the 'Daydream Pond' (included), 'Grass' from Murano's 'Aloa Outdoor' set (included) and Japanese Maple - both sizes by jon119 (not included).

As I explained in this post, I love Apollo's secret garden recolours, however, I never quite have enough to match. To solve the problem I've done a few of my own recolours using matching / similar textures. Since there's a few parts I'm going to break it down for you:

1. There are five recolours of the ferns - a dark green of the original texture + a few weed like ones. There is seven recolours of the Might Miscanthus (both the small & large version). They include two fern recolours (matches the original + dark fugly fern recolours) and the rest are messy, old plants. Mesh is not included for either as I am not interested in breaking free creators policies. You can download them here. The Miscanthus preview is in Milkshape.

2. I couldn't get this mesh to recolour so I replaced the texture with a nicer one. I didn't alter the name so if you already have the mesh it will give you the option to overwrite it if you put it in the same folder as the original. However, if you have the original mesh + my version in at the same time it is unlikely my texture will show. It's designed to sit on the edge of a river etc, so you can see the branches under water. The preview below is in Milkshape.

3. The three meshes for the grass recolours are included. There's a dark recolour of the original texture, a brown leafy recolour & a dirty / dead clump of grass recolour.

4. There are six recolours for each of the Bonsai tree (big + small). You can find the mesh for it here. They include a dark green recolour of the original leaf shape, two barren versions (one is just the main tree stump, the other has branches coming off it) and various leafed versions which match Apollo's garden.

Download here.

Comments

[nathanialroyale]

*Grabbed everything* :D

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Enjoy :D

[fatedicewolf]

Wonderful set! These are definitely going to be used for my scenery in pic spams :)

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Thank you! I can't wait to see your picspams (:

[faechangeling]

Yay! Finally someone made excellent use of the Holmes/Ripper textures! And the end result is breath-taking. Thank you again for such amazing work. <3

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

I'm glad to find someone else who likes those textures! They never seem to get used anywhere so I've made it my goal to make use of them :D Thank you though! I'm glad you like it (:

[faechangeling]

I am, too! My game is something vaguely Victorian, so it made me squeal to see them used and make a beautiful finished product! Eventually I'll hack a few textures apart and start slapping them on stuff, too. :)

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Aha, I don't even know what theme my game is yet, but at least that gives me the excuse to go download more stuff so I can eventually create one >_> I definitely think you should use these textures though, I'd snatch up whatever you create with them in a second flat.

[seelengeil]

I've always wanted plants that matched Apollo's garden set, so these are perfect! :D I also see that you have incredibly useful stuff here in your DW, so...can I add you? I'd love to see more from you, really :)

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Aw, thank you very much! Apollo's is probably one of my favourite pieces of custom content. And of course you can add me, I promise I don't bite! (:

[libitinasims]

Those recolours add so much variety and realism to any garden! *downloaded everything* =D

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Aw, thank you! They look even better when mixed with Apollo's "Secret Garden" recolours. I swear they're the only things I use, haha.

[shadowfell_sims]

I have no idea why I don't have these. But now I do! Thank you!

[youngcardinalsyoungbloods]

Haha,they are pretty old, hidden all the way at the back of my journal! I'm glad you'll be able to use them though ^^