Green flowers?

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  1. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I don't consider myself a plant-a-holic, I am more a collector of fine botanical specimens. :-D And instead of an enabler, you are a scout who seeks out and finds these fine botanical specimens and shares their existence and location with others in order to help make all parts of the world more beautiful and better places.



    Man can I pile it high or what!!
     
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    cherylad Countess of Cute-ification Plants Contributor

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    There are many. Common Plantain, a common garden weed, has them, and there's a new coneflower cultivar called 'Green Envy' that is, as its name suggests, green.
     
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    YOur so right . I happen to plant that this year.
    They called it Meringue.

    I will see if I can find the photo.

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    Here is mine this year.. It is greeen an was called Meringue coneflower.

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    We're thinking of different cultivars; the 'Green Envy' I heard about was a darker green and didn't have those puffy mounds of petals.
     
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    Ok

    I tried
     
  8. toni

    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Check back on the first page of this topic, I posted a link to a photo of the Green Envy Coneflower.
     
  9. bsewnsew

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    I like mine better.
     
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    aythya-camellia Seedling

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    I sort of want the green coneflower, but I think I'm going to annoy my mother a lot; she thinks it's bizarre.
     
  11. bsewnsew

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    Hide it where she cant see it .
    It is very pretty, but reminds me too much of a sunflower gone bad.
    PS dont mind me I am a sun flower worshiper.

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    I DO like those green flowers and that book looks very interesting also...might have to buy it.
     
  13. Garry Hopkins

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    Green Flowers

    What a coincidence, I had gone on trekking in the Himalayas (from India) and while on the trek I come across plants which had green flowers (star shaped). They looked so attractive though they were odorless. I could not take a photo as I lacked a camera at that time.
    This was the first time I ever came across green color flowers.
     
  14. Martina09

    Martina09 New Seed

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    I think the green flowers are awesome!! I guess the biggest thing to consider is how easy it would be to find green flowers and how much they would cost you. You could also look into silk flowers maybe? As far as how they look, I think they look gorgeous. Are you thinking of mixing them with any other color or just using green?
     
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    You can use google search to find out plants with green flowers...I found out many of them by doing that...
     

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