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27 Exquisite Types of Green Flowers that Add an Air of Mystery to Your Garden

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By HomeBNC • Updated on 2024-03-19


Filling your garden with the best green flowers can feel like collecting rare, sought-after treasure. Green flowers may not be as common as their more colorful cousins, but that does not mean that they are any less expressive or beautiful. In fact, many plants with green flowers have uses beyond visual aesthetics.

27 Intriguing Green Flowers to Bring Beauty and Practicality into your Garden

Many produce food, others capture insects, and one can even be harvested to create paper. Whether you are looking for unique flowers to spice up your garden or green is your favorite color, there are fantastic options for any style. From delicate pale greens to lustrous shades of jade, there are so many ways that green flowers can elevate your space.

1. Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea ‘Green Jewel’)

Coneflower

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  • 💧 Water needs: Dry to medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Average
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: May to August

Lime green petals cradle a jade-colored central cone to give the ‘Green Jewel’ coneflower cultivar a dazzling appearance. Throughout the long growing season, you can enjoy the startling color as well as a sweet fragrance. These five-inch flowers are a great addition both to your garden and to floral bouquets.

2. Corsican Hellebore (Helleborus Argutifolius)

Corsican Hellebore

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist, slightly alkaline, well-draining
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 6 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Part shade to full shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: February to April

Corsican Hellebore may be toxic if ingested, but it offers a feast for the eyes. Evergreen foliage remains dark green throughout the winter and gives your garden some great winter interest. Depending on where you live, it may even be the first green flower to bloom in your garden.

3. Italian Arum (Arum Italicum subsp. Italicum ‘Marmoratum’)

Italian Arum

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Consistently moist, Tolerates wet soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Part shade to full shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: May

Highly variegated foliage and an attractive arrowhead shape make the Italian arum a shining star in any shady spot or rain garden. In warmer climates, these plants are evergreen through the winter. Although not visible in these pictures of green flowers, Italian arum produces a yellow-green spathe by way of a flower.

4. Memory Root (Arisaema Triphyllum)

Memory Root

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium to wet
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Consistently moist, Tolerates wet soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Part shade to full shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: April to May

By their very nature, some green flowers hint at mystery. With a purple-striped hood and a green spathe, memory root achieves this unique notoriety. Able to tolerate waterlogged soil, this is an excellent plant to use in a rain garden. Towards the end of summer, this plant produces a cluster of bright red berries for added visual interest.

5. Orchid (Cattleya)

Orchid

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Potting medium
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 10 to 12
  • ☀️ Light needs: Part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Seasonal

Although orchids have a reputation for being temperamental, those in the cattleya group are among the easiest kinds to grow. Featuring a vibrant green and yellow flower hue and delicately frilled ruffles, these flowers are like living artwork. When this orchid blooms, the flowers last between four and eight weeks.

6. Hops (Humulus Lupulus ‘Cascade’)

Hops

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Average, well-drained soils, tolerates mild drought
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: September to October

While not a traditional flower, hops offer some pretty amazing benefits beyond the visual. It emanates a pleasant pine-like aroma and can be used to brew your own beer. In fact, this cultivar is used to create the flavor profile in some of the most popular beers in the world.

7. Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum Biflorum)

Solomon’s Seal

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium to wet
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Average, well-drained soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Part shade to full shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: April to May

Solomon’s Seal is one of the very few types of green flowers that are traditionally beautiful, native to North America, and well-suited to a rain garden. Green-tipped white bells appear to drip from the vine, creating an enchanting effect for photographers, artists, and gardening enthusiasts throughout the blooming season.

8. Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia Rubra)

Sweet Pitcher Plant

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  • 💧 Water needs: Wet
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Bog, does not tolerate fertilizer
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 6 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: April to May

If you enjoy a botanical challenge, explore the possibility of the carnivorous sweet pitcher plant. Each plant exudes a sweet fragrance and consists of a slender fluted pitcher that terminates in red-flecked lids. Because they are carnivorous, you will need to pay extra care when potting or planting them.

9. Papyrus (Cyperus Papyrus)

Papyrus

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  • 💧 Water needs: Wet
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Boggy soil preferred
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 9 to 10
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: July to September

No, you do not have to be an ancient Egyptian to enjoy the bright green spray offered by a papyrus plant. If you bring the potted papyrus inside, you do not even need to live in tropical hardiness zones. If you are crafty and enjoy challenging projects, you can even make your own paper with papyrus stems.

10. Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium Yuccifolium ‘Prairie Moon’)

Rattlesnake Master

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  • 💧 Water needs: Dry to medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Average, well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to September

Although it sports an intimidating name, Rattlesnake Master is an easy-to-grow plant with soft, round flowers. While it might not be a good antidote for snake venom, it can help add some variety to your green flower collection. During a long blooming season, you can enjoy showy white-green spherical flowers.

11. Tulip (Tulipa ‘Green Jay’)

Tulip

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Fertile, well-draining
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: April to May

If Green Jay tulips could be described in a few words, they would be: show-stopping. Even when seen among images of green flowers, these tulips stand out. Bright green petals terminate in a feathery yellow fringe for a flower that will start conversations. Imagine how beautiful the cut flowers would look in a vase.

12. Vanilla (Vanilla Planifolia)

Vanilla

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Fertile, consistently moist
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 11 to 12
  • ☀️ Light needs: Part shade to full shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Seasonal

Among plants, orchids are notorious for being sensitive and high maintenance. Vanilla is one of the most difficult types of orchid to grow, which means it is perfect for gardeners who enjoy a challenge. When a vanilla plant thrives, it will produce a delicate creamy green blossom. Pollinate this flower by hand for your own vanilla pods.

13. Columbine (Aquilegia Viridiflora)

Columbine

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: April to May

With intricate geometry, columbine flowers already appear as works of art. When contrasting colors like yellow green and pink come together, your garden will benefit from truly spectacular green flower plants. Blue-green foliage adds another layer of colorful abundance to your garden. With green, pink, and blue-green, this variety of columbine can fit in any landscape.

14. Spurge (Euphorbia Amygdaloides)

Spurge

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  • 💧 Water needs: Dry to medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-draining soil, cannot survive wet soil, tolerant of poor soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 6 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: April to June

As you can see in these pictures of green flowers, spurge becomes a sculptural element in a landscape. Although it thrives anywhere with good drainage, this hardy plant is a good choice for rock gardens. In the fall, this artistic flower shifts from bright green to intense burgundy.

15. Coconut Lime Coneflower (Echinacea Purpurea)

Coconut Lime Coneflower

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  • 💧 Water needs: Dry to medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Average
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to August

With a single cultivar of purple coneflower, you can showcase two shades of green. A massive double flower will have you singing about limes and coconuts throughout the blooming season. As impressive as this frilled flower looks, it is not as beneficial for pollinators because it does not produce as much pollen, seeds, or nectar.

16. Daylily (Hemerocallis ‘Zuni Thunderbird’)

Daylily

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Average, well-drained, loamy soil preferred
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to July

A Zuni Thunderbird in bloom offers the potential for some of the most powerful pictures of green flowers that anyone might capture. Dark purple petals create a bold contrast against a green throat. With large flowers that measure up to seven inches, these impressive daylilies are impossible to ignore.

17. Meadow Rue (Thalictrum Simplex)

Meadow Rue

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist well-draining soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 7 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to July

When meadow rue graces your garden, it provides clouds of green-tinged flowers and a dreamy atmosphere. Because it gets as tall as 30 inches, it can be used behind shorter flowers to build some dimension in your flower garden. Purple-tinged green sepals provide just enough contrast to keep the sprays of flowers interesting.

18. Zinnia (Zinnia Elegans ‘Envy’)

Zinnia

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained sandy soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 2 to 11
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: July to October

Zinnias offer a plethora of petals to fill out your flower garden. This cultivar makes an excellent container plant on the patio or a fantastic border in a traditional garden. Because they attract bees, these lime green flowers are a good idea in any outdoor space where flowers are welcome.

19. Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum Tectorum)

Hens and Chicks

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  • 💧 Water needs: Dry to medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Dry, well-drained soils, prefers sandy or gravelly soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to July

Why wait for a green flower to bloom when this entire succulent appears as a green flower? If you enjoy photographing images of green flowers, this plant offers year-round potential. Because it is easy to grow and easy to keep alive, it is an excellent choice for those just beginning on their gardening journey.

20. Ornamental Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea)

Ornamental Cabbage

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained loamy soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 2 to 11
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Seasonal

Available in varieties that feature purple or white accents, an ornamental cabbage gives the appearance of a frilly flower-like form without having to wait on an actual flower to bloom. With a wide range of hardiness zones, this cool weather crop is perfect for acting as a winter interest.

21. Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea Paniculata ‘Jane’ Little Lime)

Panicle Hydrangea

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Rich in organic matter, well-draining
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 – 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to part shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: July to September

For layers of lime green paradise in your garden, consider this cultivar of panicle hydrangea. Dark green foliage contrasts against bright green flower clusters for all the green goodness. In the fall, those flower clusters mature to shades of delicate pink and deep burgundy. The blooms are fantastic in cut-flower arrangements.

22. Bells of Ireland (Moluccella Laevis)

Bells of Ireland

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  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Loose, well-drained, moderately fertile soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 2 to 11
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: July to September

For green flower plants that look great in floral arrangements as well as the landscape, give Bells of Ireland a try. Each plant showcases a flashy green spike consisting of cup-shaped calyces that cradle small white flowers. For those who enjoy drying flowers, Bells of Ireland offers the opportunity for some ostentatious projects.

27 Charming and Gorgeous Green Flowers that will Immediately Spice Up Your Garden

There are lots of reasons to use green flower plants in your garden. They are excellent choices for photographers, floral arrangements, or just to spice up your botanical aesthetic. Some, like hen and chicks, are easy to grow while others, like vanilla, only thrive under an experienced gardener’s care. Beyond being pleasing to look at, many types of green flowers have additional uses. Get ready to embark on new adventures such as growing your own local produce, brewing beer with your own hops, drying raisins with your own grapes, or simply enjoying a subtle fragrance. Green flowers are the perfect way to take your garden to the next level.

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