Can't help myself...

[undercarriage plan]

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

[undercarriage plan]

[Rosa_Mundi]

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....

[Merry Tiller]

Have you ever seen a green flowered chrysanthemum? Fantastic, alien looking things, I love 'em

[Robert_Brenchley]

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.

[undercarriage plan]

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

[Robert_Brenchley]

I like the odd green flower for contrast; I don't just want a polychromatic splurge. each to their own, I suppose.

[supernan]

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!!

[undercarriage plan]

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

[Robert_Brenchley]

No insult taken, I promise. They're not everyone's fancy, but few things are.

[Val]

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?

[undercarriage plan]

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

[Deleted]

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.

[aquilegia]

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?!!!

[undercarriage plan]

Cos they're pink?    ;) Lottie

[Val]

We are a strange lot... ;D ;D ;D ;)...but nice ;D

[undercarriage plan]

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

[Val]

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...

[wattapain]

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

[Rosa_Mundi]

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....

[undercarriage plan]

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