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Thursday, July 03 2008 18:39:22 by Alison Patel
Alison Patel writes: The gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show all had one thing in common - a predominance of green plants and shrubbery - and Joe Swift of the Times has recommended gardeners adopt the calming colour themselves.
Tom Stuart-Smith, winner of best in show, managed to produce a garden for Chelsea that only used green plants.
Swift has recommended that gardeners separate out their palette of colours "so that cool shades, such as the glaucous blue-green of hostas and blue grasses, are kept largely apart from the zingier yellow-greens found in euphorbias and Smyrnium perfoliatum, for example".
Alternatively, for those that find a completely green garden too much like hard work, Swift suggests using it as a base colour and adding in brighter colours "to work against it".
There are clearly a plethora of green plants to choose from but Swift gives a suggestion for the top five.
Paris polyphylla - a "magical plant" - the lily Zantedeschia aethiopica or 'Green Goddess', Helleborus argutifolius with its "glossy green leaves", Alchemilla mollis 'Lady's Mantle' and the Mathiasella bupleuroides 'Green Dream'.
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