Border Builder

Green-flowering plants

Plants with green flowers for a colour-themed border.

Green flowers and foliage are the most sophisticated note in a border, prized for their calm, their freshness and the way they set off every other colour around them. A predominantly green scheme relies on contrast of form and texture rather than colour: broad against narrow leaves, glossy against matt, fine fern against bold paddle. Green flowers, found in hellebores, euphorbias and certain tobacco plants, read as quietly unusual and stop a planting looking too sweet. Variegation and lime-green foliage extend the theme. The skill is in the staging rather than the shade. These plants are chosen for genuinely green flowers and for the structural foliage that gives a green-led border its quiet authority.

Border Builder is a garden border planner for iPhone and iPad. Pick from the 145 plants below and it works them into a full plan: how many of each, where they go, and how the bed reads through the seasons.

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