{"id":3011,"date":"2013-05-26T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2013-05-25T06:26:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T13:26:41","slug":"top-ten-green-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/top-ten-green-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Top Ten of Green Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Green Flowers: Unexpected Beauty for the Garden, Container or Vase’ by Alison Hoblyn<\/a> is a book celebrating all that is best with green flowers. If you want to splash out on a second book try ‘Emeralds: 1000 Green Flowers and 500 Choice Green Foliage Plants’ by Karen Platt’. <\/a>Who would have thought there were so many green flowers\u00c2\u00a0 to choose from.
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Green flowers make a good foil for stronger colours on other plants and also generate a lot of interest in their own right. Flower arrangers<\/strong> love green plants and many traditional flowers like Chrysanths and Carnations have been bred for cutting but many florists flowers are died to look green so beware.<\/p>\n

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Top Ten Green Flowering Plants<\/h3>\n
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  1. Hemerocallis the Day Lily<\/strong> variety Green Flutter gets our list off to a yellowish green start as shown on the book cover.<\/li>\n
  2. Ribes laurifolium Mrs Amy Doncaster is a strong growing lime green flowering currant<\/strong>. It is evergreen and a strong performer that attracts bees. One of my all time favourites.<\/li>\n
  3. Alchemilla mollis or Lady’s Mantle<\/strong> is a free flowering easy to grow (free seeding thus harder to control) small perennial with light airy grey-green flowers.<\/li>\n
  4. Hecquetica epipactus<\/strong> has flowers or what look like flowers. Six green petaled “daisies” with domed yellow centres sit on the ground in tight clumps sometimes with a slight yellow colouring in part of the petal or bract.<\/li>\n
  5. Euphorbias provide many green forms and ‘E. myrinities Tulipa Spring Green’<\/strong> springs to mind but see our Euphorbia page<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Viridiflora is a name in plants that implies green as in the range of Viridiflora Tulips. There is also Rose odorata ‘Viridiflora’<\/strong> that has the appearance of green flowers.<\/li>\n

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  7. Gladioli Emerald Spring<\/strong> is the greenest of green glads without any other colour. Flowering Jul-Sep of about 20 ruffled medium-sized flowers 7 or more will open by the time the first flower fades. A flower arrangers dream and easy to grow.<\/li>\n
  8. Plant the Iris hybrid Pride of Ireland<\/strong> for a subtle shade of the softest green<\/li>\n
  9. Primula Francisca has lime green flowers with pale yellow eyes. Chloe and Benny Green are green forms of Auricula<\/strong> from the same Primula family.<\/li>\n
  10. Hellebores<\/strong><\/a> are often green flowered and I suggest the Helleborus ericsmithii for the long lasting interest.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    By my reckoning that still leave about 990 green flowers to discover.<\/p>\n

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    ‘Green Flowers: Unexpected Beauty for the Garden, Container or Vase’ by Alison Hoblyn is a book celebrating all that is best with green flowers. If you want to splash out on a second book try ‘Emeralds: 1000 Green Flowers and 500 Choice Green Foliage Plants’ by Karen Platt’. Who would have thought there were so many green flowers\u00c2\u00a0 to choose from. Green flowers make a good foil for stronger colours on other plants and also generate a lot of interest…<\/p>\n

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