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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: undercarriage plan on June 17, 2005, 20:36:26
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I'm sure someone out there will explain it to me, but....... I just don't get it!! What is the point of green flowers!!! Educate me, please. Feeling like I'm missing out on something, but not sure what........ ??? Lottie ;D
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Camouflage? ;D
I agree, though - think they're a bit of a waste of effort. Mind you, I also think many lemon-leaved plants look sickly....
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Have you ever seen a green flowered chrysanthemum? Fantastic, alien looking things, I love 'em
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I had some green saxifrage, it was fabulous, but it was nicked. The person responsible is now down to two virtually uncultivated plots and appears to be on her way out. Thing about flowers is that bees don't see the same spectrum as us. What appears quite dowdy to us may look totally different to them.
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Mmm. Good points, but I'm not a bee!!! With just a moderately sized garden, i want to fill it with colour and... yup, colour!! Still need convincing! Lottie ;D
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I like the odd green flower for contrast; I don't just want a polychromatic splurge. each to their own, I suppose.
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Try this one, Rudbeckia Green Wizard, in my garden it was much more lime green than the picture in the link.
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/page12-rudbeckia.htm
You can use the flowers all year as they dry well!!
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OK, yup, quite like the Green Wizzard but because it's unusual. Perhaps I'm a lost cause....... Robert, not meaning to insult at all, I just .... I Just....I just don't get it!!!! Lottie ;D ;D ;D
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No insult taken, I promise. They're not everyone's fancy, but few things are.
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I hate green flowers, I like my leaves green...well sometimes variegated...I can never seem to place them, they either disappear with the green of other plants leaves or look a bit silly, but then I know some people who hate orange....thats us gardeners for you...aren't we great?
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That's my problem,Val!! You can't see the darn things!! There are so many beautiful and unusal plants out there that I'd choose over a green flower...... OK, don't feel so alone now..Thank you ;D Lottie
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Well, think of them as alternative to other green (i.e. non-flowering) plants. Lots of people don't have flowers and just go for greenery. Personally I like the odd splash of colour.
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I love green flowers - really bizarre! (not that I've got many). Nice bit of variety.
My garden is at times a little lacking in colour, but it's never lacking in green. But then green is my favourite colour!
pink flowers - what's the point?!!!
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Cos they're pink? ;) Lottie
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We are a strange lot... ;D ;D ;D ;)...but nice ;D
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Oh dear, this could be embarassing!! Just realized I have a green flowering plant in my garden!!!!! :o :o :o Ladies Mantle!! It's not my fault, I didn't put it there!! But I will leave it alone, quite pretty in a strangely, green way....! ;D Lottie
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Well I've found in the past that everytime I say I hate something, I'd never have it, I'm searching it out a few years later...so watch this space...
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And also - green is not just one colour - forty shades and all that.
Whar about pale green hellebores - and acid green euphorbia?
Still as you say - each to his own. And as Val says tastes change. I used to absolutely hate tulips and red hot pokers!! ::) :P
Now I just adore them. ;D ;D 8)
Terri
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Well I've found in the past that everytime I say I hate something, I'd never have it, I'm searching it out a few years later...so watch this space...
When we moved into this house the garden had exclusively pink flowers - I spent the next ten years getting rid of the darn things. Then I decided that I wanted some old-fashioned roses - guess what colour the best ones were? I gave in and planted them - few other pinks have crept in since, too....
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Seems like I'm going to end up with a graden full of green flowers! But when I look at my briliiant red Peonie, white roses, blue Ceonothus, pink pelagoniums, just can't see it!! Will keep the Ladies Mantle, for now....... Mind you it's next on my hit list...... ;D ;D Lottie
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Lottie - send me your lady's mantel when you get rid of it and I'll send you something pink! I love LM, am trying to grow it from seed, but it doesn't seem happy.
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You're more than welcome!! pm me with your address and I'll attempt to send it!! Not done this before so if you end up with box of wet compost and a really ******* plant...... :o :o :o Lottie
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I can't get rid of it! It grows everywhere it isn't supposed to......luckily I love green flowers ;D ;D Well some of them! ;)
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Lady's Mantle - Alchemilla Mollis - get rid of it? How could you?
Have you ever noticed how when it rains or when you water, how beautiful the captured water sits in the leaf? Also, it's always there if anything else lets you down.
Architecturally, as they say, it also provides interesting shape. However, if you like the shape but not the boring green, grow a geum or a potentilla! They are lovely and flower prolifically in all kinds of colours, not only pink! Have a purple Heurchera - insignificant flowers - but every bee I've seen manages to get inside their tiny flowers - lovely colour all the year round and gives a winter garden a lift.
Perhaps it might help to think of green as a framework for your flowers. As was mentioned, even green hellibores have their own merit!
Best of luck and let us know what happens in your garden, please.
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In my garden? At the minute looking really lush, til I took a closer look and reallized the lushness was due to excess weeds!! So in my garden at the minute, furious weeding is taking place! Lottie ;D ;D ;D
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Don't worry, you're not the only one. another week to ten days should see off the GCSE marking, then I'll be weeding like mad whenever the opportunity occurs. I just haven't had a chance the last few weeks. Meanwhile the weeds are making hay while the sun shines. You can almost see them growing.
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I've been pulling and weeding and squishing and cutting and pruning for at least 20 mins.........!! Need a sit down and big glass of wine!!!!! ;) Lottie
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I grow loads of green flowered plants, i can't get enough of them. i initially grew them solely for flower arranging, and couldn't really see the point of them. but when you see how they spice up oranges and purples and yellows, i can't beleive i didn't used to like them. and what works in a vase, works in the garden. green flowers also add form and contrast, the green is not confined to leaf shapes! i even pick chinese lanterns before they turn orange!
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I know you're right!! Just can't see it myself. My mum is a flower aranger, and would give up a child (gulp!) for a decent bit of Spurge!!!! Lottie ;D ;D ;D
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Everyone will be handing their kids over now, a child for a plant?...wow, makes sense to me.
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Just think how quiet winter would be!!! But (and don't tell them!) I would miss the little blighters!!
And realized something else!! I love plants for their foliage, have lots of ferns, hostas, a Gunnera, bamboo. So, I do love green, it's just the flower thing ??? ??? Lottie ;D
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think of the flowers as really unusual leaves
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Nope! They're definitely flowers!! Tried looking at them from the corner of my eye, or pretending they're not there, then having a quick, crafty look....... still green flowers!! Nice leaves though!!! ;D ;D ;D Lottie