Rare Green Flowers Names, Pictures, And Growing Tips + Guide

Green, so in nature yet rare in flowers. Have you seen purely green flowers commonly grown in gardens? Not so often…

But, green flowers are love!

Flowers in rare yet pure colors look so enchanting, like Pure blue flowers, pink flowers, Purple Flowers, red flowers, and… many more.

Just like that, Green flowers are showstopper by nature, for example, bells of Ireland, green dahlia, hydrangea bloom, and ‘Green ball’ dianthus, with its fuzzy spheres in lime color. 

So, let’s know all the green flowers you can grow in your gardens without wasting time.

Green Flowers Names, Pictures, and Growing Tips + Guide:

First of all, we will discuss all those flowers which are available in pure green texture. So, let’s start:

1. Flowering Tobacco:

Woohoo! As the name denotes, this plant is toxic, though it looks excellent to grow in the garden. All you have to do is keep kids and children away.

Scientific Name: Nicotiana Sylvestris

Family:   Solanaceae, nightshade

Common Name: woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, South American tobacco, Persian Tobacco

Plant Type: Tender perennial / Annual

Growing time:  two to three weeks of planting

Hardiness zone: 10 to 11

Blooming Season: June to Frost

Blooming Span: About 10 weeks

There’re several plants that look like weed but aren’t toxic at all. Nevertheless, this one is. But it looks so enchanting that you can’t resist growing them in your homes.

It comes in different heights, short and long. However, one small size you can get it in is:

6” x 6” (width x height)

It comes in many colors, including green. Here is a guide on how to grow Nicotiana Sylvestris or the sweet tobacco green flowers at Home:

2. Spider Mum Flower:

Spider mom flower is available in various colors; however, they look so enchanting in the green shade.

Their staying period is quite long, which is why Asteraceae is so in to use in the wedding and other types of floral decorations.

Scientific Name: Dendranthema x Grandiflorum

Genus: Chrysanthemum

Family: Asteraceae

Common Name: Mums, Spider Mom Flower, Mum of Spider flower

Plant Type: Perennial & annual

Growing Span: Four months

Growing Season: Late July to early fall

Hardiness zone: 5

Interesting Fact: It can stay fresh in banquets for 14 to 21 days.

Commonly, Spider blooms can grow quite broad.

Spider mom flower size is up to 6 inches wide

If you remove some buds, you can maintain the size to lesser inches in width.

Here is the easiest yet quick way on How to grow Spider Mom Flowers at Home without a worry:

it’s easy to grow mums from cuttings. However, if you see that your plant is withering and the flowers are getting dried, do not throw it away.

Here, you can use dried spider mum flowers to collect seeds and then use them to grow new and fresh plants.

Here are some tips and guidelines in the video on collecting the Mums’ seeds and how to grow them from seeds instead of cutting. Please, follow the instructions carefully.

PS: The video is not made by a native English person; however, the instructions given are so detailed.

3. Bells Of Ireland:

Bells of Ireland is, without a doubt, the most delicate flowers with a bizarre shape like a bell. If you ask for these green flowers meaning, the bells of Ireland symbolize luck and fortune.

Bells of Ireland are so delicate that their thin paper texture is used in delicate floral arrangements. Besides, this flower is used in dried form and beautifies the surroundings in its unique way.

Scientific Name: Moluccella Laevis

Genus: Moluccella

Family: Lamiaceae

Common Name: Bells of Ireland, Shell Flower, Bells of Iceland

Plant Type: Annual

Growing Span:  Two months after sprouting

Growing Season: July to September

Hardiness Zone: 2 to 11 in the north end

Interesting Fact: Bells of Ireland aren’t native Ireland or Iceland but Turkey and Iran. They are called bells of Ireland due to their bell shape and green color, which relates to Ireland’s greenery.

The bells of Ireland flower size is:

Height 2-3- feet

It is a slow grower; therefore, when you are producing green flowers from seeds rather than cuttings, seeds will take up to a month to produce shoots.

If you know the right techniques and are ready to follow the instructions carefully, you can have beautiful green flowers dancing in your garden.

Here is how you can grow bells of Ireland at Home:

4. Cock’s Comb

Cock’s comb usually sprout in a variety of hues, but they look incredibly enchanting in green. Why are they called so? Thanks to their shape that resembles the comb of a cock.

Scientific Name: Celosia cristata or Celosia

Genus: Celosia

Family: Amaranthaceae

Common Name: Cock’s comb, Wool Flowers, Brain Celosia,

Plant Type: Annuals

Growing time: About four months

Blooming Season: From summer until early fall

Heat zone: USDA plant hardiness zones 10 & 11

Their Genus name is derived from a Greek word that means burning because it also appears like a burning flame.

Interesting Fact: Among all varieties, green Cock’s Combs are less expensive of all.

Their green color has a bit brightly lime toned texture.

The head and stem sizes are combined to find the exact size of Cock’s Combs because the flower head of this plant grows in an upward direction than widely. So,

Cock’s Combs Crested Head 2-5 inches Wide While Leafy stem is 12-28 inches long

Cock’s comb or comb of the rooster plant is grown widely worldwide, especially in sunny and hot areas. However, it can sprout well in less-hot regions but not the frozen ones.

The flower is great for ornamental purposes because they look really enchanting, and mostly grown in public gardens to enhance their beauty.

If you want to grow it in your Home to give your garden a pretty look, follow the instructions given in this video:

5. Green Rose Flower:

There is no doubt that the Rose is the most sought after flower and available in incredible tones and colors. Red and maroon roses are most common; however, you can have green roses as well.

Green rose aren’t so common to see in gardens; they are rare but not impossible to germinate.

Scientific Name: Rosa

Family: Rosaceae

Common Name: Rose

Plant Type: Annuals, Perennials

Growing Span: six to eight weeks

Blooming Season: Summers

Hardiness zone: 4, 5, or 3 based on the temperature of the area

Interesting Fact: Green roses can be the oldest roses of all.

You can use green flowers in banquets, floral arrangements, and in many other ways, you want to. Everyone loves Roses, and it is the most famous flower so far.

Roses are available in smallest to largest sizes. In tiniest miniature, they some centimeters long, while a hybrid flower can rise up to many inches.

How To Get Green Roses:

Roses aren’t to grow plants; however, finding seeds for green roses can be challenging. However, if you cannot find seeds, you can use cuttings to grow these flowers.

Another way to have green roses in your banquets and Home is by coloring them. Astonished?  In this video, you can find out how you turn white roses into green, blue, and purple roses.

6. Mediterranean Spurge:

It is a unique and splendid plant with green flowers that grow up to a foot and look enthralling yet so captivating in your garden.

Scientific Name: Euphorbia Characias Wulfenii

Family:  Euphorbiaceae

Common Name: Mediterranean spurge, Albanian spurge

Plant Type: Perennial shrub

Growing Span: It has slow germination can take from a few weeks to some months

Blooming Season: Spring

Hardiness zone: 4 – 8

Their color is lime-like green or yellowish-green when you look from a distance. Euphorbia Characias Wulfenii flowers naturally grow in green color and have a very bizarre shape.

Mediterranean Spurge Plant starts growing in winters.

When these plants are done blooming, you will have to cut down the buds almost entirely so that leaves can come back after these spent their flowers.

The plant is very tall, while the flowers grow in clusters and make this plant even taller. Flower size is:

12-18 inches long x 6-8 inches in diameter (approx.)

Mediterranean Spurge needs a garden or a big pot to grow because of their larger size; roots need a big room to sprout well.

Tools like the easy garden spiral hole drill planter make gardening effortless for such giant species of plants. 

Here is how you can propagate Mediterranean Spurge from cuttings:

• Select early spring season for growth
• Get cuttings with 4 to 8 sets of leaves
• Remove lower leaves and the growing tip of the plant
• Rinse off the sap from the cutting with cool water

• Wait for some time to let the washed area get dry
  • Prepare the soil with 20 – 50 % soil
  • Place the cutting in the soil
  • Gently water your baby plant
• Get ready to place in the direct sun
  • Place the pot on a heating mat to stimulate root growth
  • Place the pot under the full sun once you see sprouting

Take care of the following things:

1. Wear gloves while cutting as its sap can irritate the skin
2. Let the plant drain well to avoid rotting
3. Don’t repot until roots fill the pot
4. Use root remover tool to conveniently remove and transfer the plant

Now we shall discuss green flowers that come in a combination of colors

Lime Green Flowers

7. Green Dahlia Flower:

Dahlia lets you make a garden full of colors as it offers a variety of shades, in an eye-catching design, grow whole year without a pause.

Along with black, purple, blue, red, orange, and white colors, Dahlias also come in lime tone (green color).

Scientific Name: Dahlia pinnata

Family: Asteraceae

Common Name: Garden Dahlia

Plant Type: Tender perennial

Growing Span:  8 to 9 weeks of planting

Blooming Season: Late autumn till late spring

Hardiness Zone: 8 to 11

They are perennial plants that mean these are forever plants that can be grown throughout the year, however, under certain conditions.

Here is what you need to know about Dahlia size:

Wide as a dinner plate X couple of inches long (width x height)

To grow dahlias at Home, follow the tips given in the video:

For regular and even watering, you can use water guns, and easy hoeing can be done using garden claw gloves.

8. Dianthus “Green Ball”:

Dianthus barbatus ‘Green Ball,’ also known as Sweet Williams, develops unique and ball-shaped flowers with fuzzy spikes, sizing to some inches.

Scientific Name: Dianthus barbatus

Genus: Pink

Family: Caryophyllaceae

Common Name: Green Ball plant, Sweet Williams plant

Plant Type: Perennials

Growing time: seeding starts in 14 – 21 days

Blooming Season:  Late spring and summer.

Heat zone: 1 – 9

They have a stick erect stem, on which ball like spikes grow and shape a ball. The plant has dark green leaves and looks lush in the garden.

Dianthus green ball grows up to some inches long, sizing:

Up to 3 inches

The best season to grow Dianthus “green ball” is spring. They sprout, bloom, and develop quickly and effortlessly, but only by using the right methods.

Here check, how to grow Dianthus “Green Ball” at Home:

9. Gerbera Daisy

Who doesn’t know The Daisies? Beautiful colorful daisies, all smiling in your garden, what a delightful experience it will be.

Well, daisies, along with many other colors, come surprisingly in fresh green color too. You can grow them in the yards or pots without difficulty and add more greenery to your already lush gardens.

Scientific Name: Gerbera jamesonii

Genus: Gerbera

Family: Daisy

Common Name: Green Daisy, Gerbera Daisy, Barberton Daisy, Transvaal daisy

Plant Type: Annuals, Perennials

Growing time: About four months

Hardiness zone: 8 – 10.

These plants are real spirits to show a springy texture in your garden, with colorful blooms spread all over.

The typical growth of Gerbera Daisies in any color, or green color, is quite tall.

Gerbera Daisy Length = 6 to 18 inches tall

These daisies sit on dead stems about 6 inches above the foliage.

You can grow Gerbera daisies quickly at Home. However, if you know the right techniques and tactics, you can do it in an even better way.

So, here is a guide to sprouting better gerbera daisies at Home:

10. Calla Lily Green Goddess:

The Calla lily flowers can be found in different charming colors, and it is one of the most used flowers after rose for banquets.

The green lily is called the green goddess because of its beautiful appearance and elegant and gooey fragrance.

Scientific Name: Zantedeschia aethiopica

Family:  Araceae

Common Name: Calla Lily, Green Goddess

Plant Type: Bulbs, Perennials

Growing Span: Sprouting starts in two weeks, but it takes 13-16 weeks for flowering

Growing Season: Spring

Hardiness zone: 8 – 10

Having green lilies is a perfect option to have in floral gardens, thanks to their easy growing attitude, sweet fragrance, and showy beauty.

Calla lilies give you a long flower with a large stem for easy addition to the banquets.

Shaped-like funnels, calla lily flowers can grow up to 30 inches

Winters are suitable to grow Calla Lilies; however, they can be emblement in the whole year with special conditions.

Here are some tips on how to grow calla lily plant easily at Home:

Pink And Green Flowers:

What do pink and green flowers mean? Well, it simply means you get flowers not just in a green tone but in a combination of green.

It can bring captivating options for plants for your garden. So, let’s check them out:

11. Cymbidium Orchid

Cymbidium Orchid is a genus that produces the longest living Boat Orchids flowers to survive without stem sown in the soil. Therefore, for colorful bouquets, these make the best option.

These fabulous looking orchids don’t just produce bloom in green and pink color but also offer variety in red, pink, white, and yellow.

Scientific Name: Cymbidium

Family:  Orchidaceae

Common Name: Boat Orchids

Plant Type: Perennial

Growing Span: Three years

Blooming Season: Spring

Hardiness zone: 10 to 12

Cymbidium Orchid Flowers, when grow, can stay fresh and last up to one to three months. They love night temperature to fall below 58 degrees as it initiates blooms to spike.

They produce large flowers that go up to:

From 2 ½ – 6 inches

These are winter plants, and you will have to start growing them from February. However, you need to be a very patient person to grow Cymbidium Orchids at Home because they take the longest to develop.

Here is a helpful video on how you can grow cymbidium orchids at Home in the pots:

12. Hydrangea-macrophylla

You find seventy different types of Hydrangea in nature. They bring embellishing blooms and usually blooms through winters.

During frosting, it is recommended to bring big leaf Hydrangea indoor to keep them from cold.

Their buds grow so well indoors and start producing unique flowers in a combination of colors such as pink and green.

Scientific Name: Hydrangeaceae

Family:  Orchidaceae

Common Name: Bigleaf Hydrangea, French Hydrangea, lacecap Hydrangea, mophead hydrangea, penny mac, and hortensia.

Plant Type: Deciduous Shrubs

Best Season to Grow: Mid-spring through summer

Growing time: Hydrangea grows 25 inches per year until maturity

Hardiness zone: 3 – 10

Interesting information: Bigleaf Hydrangea is quite vulnerable to cold as it can thin down shrubs’ size.

Bigleaf Hydrangea flowers are known for their big, big leaves that surround the plant from all sides, suck nutrients from the soil, and help Hydrangea grow well.

All with this, remember, Hydrangea needs a lot of water to grow well, as the hydra in their names denotes.

They give you large flowers that are:

4 – 6 inches long x 4 – 6 inches wide

If you want to grow Hydrabdea at Home, make sure to give them direct sunlight for at least four hours a day.

Along with this, you need to give them a lot of water to sprout well and make your plant richly floral. Here is what else you should do to get well grown-up hydrangeas.

13. Hen aNd Chicks (Sempervivum)

Sempervivum forms evergreen rosettes in foliage to pink tone that turns purple during frosting season.

The captivating beauty of this plant with succulent leaves looks like charming flowers, filled with sap looks impressive and add up to the feel of any place.

Scientific Name: Sempervivum

Family:  Crassulaceae / stonecrop

Common Name: Houseleeks, liveforever, hen & chicks

Plant Type: Succulents, Perennial

Best Season to Grow: Mid-spring through summer

Growing time: From three weeks to a year to germinate

Growing zone: 4 – 8

After getting mature, each offset starts forming its own roots and remains no more dependent on the parent plant.

Each parent plant dies after flowering; however, the offspring takes up space until then, and the cycle keeps going and going.

Houseleek (Sempervivum) Flower blooms taller yet even broader horizontally. The size of the flower will be:

2 – 6 inches tall x 9 – 12 inches wide

Being a succulent, Houseleek doesn’t take much effort to grow. However, as it takes quite more time than other plants, so you need to be a little patient to grow your pink and green flowers.

Here is the method, how can you grow this everlasting houseplant in the Home:

14. Amaryllis Minerva

Amaryllis have two different genus but many species, almost 700. However, today we are talking about Amaryllis Minerva, the three colored, giant flower to adorn your gardens.

They do not have an exact green color, but the bulbs’ petals give a green texture while blooming because their bud is green. However, the green surface is quite prominent, and we can call them Amaryllis green and pink flowers.

Scientific Name: Amaryllis Minerva

Family:  Amaryllis – Hippeastrum

Common Name: Amaryllis Minerva, Amaryllis Bulbs, Amaryllis Pink and green flower

Plant Type: bulbs

Best Season to Grow: Winter, Earliest days of spring

Growing time: Within 6 – 8 weeks with right growing conditions or at most 10 weeks

Climate zone: 14 – 17, 21 – 24, H1, H2

So many times, we confuse Amaryllis and Hippeastrum for their similar-looking flowers and plant characteristic.

The interesting thing is, Hippeastrum was part of the genus Amaryllis but was later in 1990 became an independent genus itself.

Just check out:

You can have Butterfly Amaryllis Papilio with a little bit of darker maroon for an even greenish texture.

Amaryllis don’t have flowers; they are bulbs. So the size of Amaryllis bulbs is:

1 – 2 inches x 7 – 8 inches ( Height x Spread)

This elegant plant is elementary to grow. Easy, straightforward, and takes less time than the bulbs usually take to grow. To have this smart plant in your Home, please follow the instructions given in this video, step-by-step:

Blue and Green flowers:

Blue and green, the color combination is scarce to find in flowers by nature. However, many bridal banquets are made by using blue and green flowers.

They use green and blue flowers side by side but arrange them in a nicer way to look natural.

However, Bluecrown Passionflower Passiflora Caerulea can give you both tints, in reality, you are looking for:

15. Bluecrown Passionflower Passiflora Caerulea,

Passiflora Caerulea, flowering plant species are native to South America right now; however, it was introduced somewhere else than America.

The plant is shaped like a vigorous vine that’s semi-evergreen and can develop up to 10 m or more.

Scientific Name: Passiflora Caerulea

Family:   Passifloraceae

Common Name: Blue passionflower, blue crown passionflower, common passionflower, sweet Grandia

Plant Type: Perennial evergreen vine, Climbers

Best Season to Grow: Whole Summer, Fall

Growing time: 1 – 12 months at 20°c

Hardiness zone: 6 – 9

Interesting Information: Soak seeds for 12 hours in warm water and sow them in late winters.

You can find plenty of them grown around you, especially when it comes to the category of passion flowers.

Interestingly, the blue and green flowers vines aren’t just planted for ornamental purposes, but they produce an edible flower and are used in many types of medicine making as well.

The flowers are small but aren’t too tiny not to be seen. They grow:

3.9 inches diameter

Here is the most detailed guide on how you can grow Blue Passionflower At Home:

Just follow it, and in 12 months, you will have your own passion flowers and passion fruits.

Bottom Line:

This is not the end. The blog has just stated. We will soon be adding more queries in our green flower category; we are researching on.

Queries include White and Green Flowers, Purple and Green flowers, and some more, which we will reveal later.

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