Green options for all needs
Nicotiana langsdorffii
The most elegant of tobacco plants, the dainty vivid green, waisted bells hang from unexpectedly strong, wiry stems, their colour enhanced by the blue anthers. Resistant to the blue mould that attacks other nicotianas. H: 3ft (90cm).
Echinacea ‘Green Jewel’
An entirely green coneflower, both the ring of petals and the domed cone are green and the upwardfacing flowers are held on stout stems. ‘Coconut Lime’ is a frillyflowered double version. H: 28in (70cm).
Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
Long, coneshaped flower heads open green, become creamier as they mature then deepen in colour eventually developing pinkish tones. Prune hard in spring. ‘Little Lime’ (‘Jane’) is more compact. H: 6ft (1.8m). AGM.
Zinnia ‘Giant Lime’
Large fullydouble flowers about 4in (10cm) across are pale lime green in colour and held on stout stems on tall plants. Sometimes listed as ‘Benary’s Giant Lime’, and more consistently double than the old green favourite ‘Envy’. H: 3ft (90cm).
Galtonia candicans ‘Viridiflora’
With two towers of up to 30 pale ivory-green bells from each bulb, each autumn, this is a stately and intriguing lateflowering bulb, and later flowering than other galtonias. H: 3ft (90cm).
Clematis ‘Green Passion’
This amazing, fully double, green-flowered, May and June flowering clematis has a slightly silvered back to the petals giving a two-tone effect, with white tips to the later flowers. Blooms again, but less prolifically, in early autumn. H: 6ft (1.8m)