30 Beautiful Green Flowers to Scatter Around Your Landscape
Nearly hidden, these green blooms suddenly jump out at viewers who notice them.
Go green! Green flowers!
Green isn't just for shrubs and trees. Blooms of green flowers can add a layer of subtle interest, texture, and depth to landscape beds and cutting gardens, rewarding patient viewers with seasonal wonder.
From palest green to chartreuse, green flowers are a lovely way to round out your garden's palette. Brilliant red flowers, hot pinks, and soft purples pop with a backdrop of these muted shades. Green flowers also provide a striking contrast in bouquets when displayed alongside other more colorful blooms. (Making a bouquet? Follow the 3-5-8 rule for guaranteed success!)
Many green flowers are annuals. (Here's the difference between annuals and perennials.) But when choosing green flowers that are perennials or shrubs, be sure to select those that will survive winters in your USDA Hardiness zones. (Find your zone here. Note that the hardiness zone map was updated last year so your zone may have changed.)
Ahead, we've rounded up the prettiest green flowers to grow now. Although you may not be familiar with many of them, they deserve a place among the more vibrant colors in your garden.
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Persian Lily
Persian lily, also known as fritillaria, grow from bulbs planted in the fall for spring blooms. They come in many colors, including green, and they're one type of bulb that's less likely to get eaten by rodents such as chipmunks.
Type of plant: Perennial
Ammi
Ammi are lovely, lacy flowers related to the native Queen Anne's lace. They grow easily from seed so they make a wonderful addition to a cutting garden, blooming in shades of white, pink or green. Although they're annual, they drop tons of seeds, so if you don't want them to reseed in your garden next year, remove the spent flowers before they dry and drop seeds.
Type of plant: Annual
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is grown as an annual, providing pretty silvery-green foliage that is beautiful in bouquets and dries well, lasting for years.
Type of plant: Perennial, often grown as an annual
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Amaranth
Amaranth is a lesser-known annual, but it has striking seed heads that are beautiful in gardens and arrangements. It comes in shades of pink, red, and of course green.
Type of plant: Annual
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Zinnia
Zinnias come in a dizzying array of colors, including hot pink, red, orange, yellow, and, this lovely pale lime green.
They grow easily from seed and make excellent cutting flowers: The more you cut, they more they'll produce!
Type of plant: Annual
Green Rose
This amazing rose plant is actually an heirloom rose with no flowers, petals or seeds. The sterile rose has been kept and passed on for generations by propagating cuttings and sharing!
Type of plant: Shrub
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Daylily
Daylilies are super-hardy plants that grow in most soil types. Their flowers last just one day (thus, the name!), but they have multiple buds on every stem. This variety, 'Gentle Shepherd,' has a pale greenish caste.
Type of plant: Perennial
Coneflower
Coneflowers come in every color of the rainbow from hot pink to bright yellow. But pale green varieties are also available, and they are sturdy. reliable plants for any type of garden.
Type of plant: Perennial
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Lisianthus
These stunning flowers come in lovely pinks, purples, and whites, which often have a greenish central hue. They're truly elegant and look smashing in bouquets.
Type of plant: Perennial
Dahlia
Dahlias are some of the best flowers to grow for late season color, bursting into bloom in late summer and well into fall until a frost. They come in every color imaginable, including pale green.
Type of plant: Perennial, often grown as an annual
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Jack in the Pulpit
This charming native spring wildflower grows in partly shaded woodlands. Plant them along wooded areas for their unique blooms, which deer tend to avoid.
Type of plant: Perennial
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Sea Holly
This long-lived flowering plant has the most interesting thistle-like blooms. You'll see it in shades of blue or purple but also pale green.
Type of plant: Perennial
Bells of Ireland
Multiple cup-shaped blooms with a papery texture grow on a single stalk. They provide height to flower arrangements and work in both fresh or dried bouquets.
Type of plant: Annual
Mediterranean Spurge
This compact evergreen shrub is low-maintenance and to drought-tolerant. Its foliage is dark green, while the blooms are a bright neon hue.
Type of plant: Shrub
Dianthus
If a flower could be the life of the party, the variety of dianthus ('Green Ball') shown here would be just that! The soft and fuzzy round, lime-colored balls are a fun addition to beds and containers alike.
Type of plant: Perennial
Calla Lily
Calla lilies, with their elegant trumpet-shaped flowers, are available in an array of colors. Though white calla lilies, having starred in many a bridal bouquet, these pale green blooms are a stunning addition to gardens.
Type of plant: Perennial
Carnation
A popular filler in arrangements, carnations are most impressive when a full bouquet of a single color is amassed in a vase. Light-green carnations are especially fitting for a spring celebration-- and less expensive than many other floral options.
Type of plant: Annual, biennial, and perennial types
Chrysanthemum
These stars of the autumn garden come in all the usual fall colors such as pumpkin orange, bright red, and yellow. But the lime green types are especially fun in beds and arrangements.
Type of plant: Perennial, often grown as an annual
Cockscomb
With a shape reminiscent of ocean coral , a little green cockscomb goes a long way. These uniquely-shaped blooms bring boldness to a garden or flower arrangement.
Type of plant: Perennial, often grown as an annual
Cymbidium Orchid
Cymbidium orchids last for weeks in bouquets. The tropical colors range from light to dark green and feature red, pink, white, or yellow centers. Cymbidium orchids have smaller flowers compared to other orchid varieties, but can produce up to 30 blooms per spike.
Type of plant: Perennial
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