With a wide variety of textures, shapes and tones, the variety of green colors for your garden is endless. From brilliant chartreuse to pale gray-green you have a big selection of foliage.

Using Different Shades of Green for Variety in Your Landscaping

Designers agree green is a soothing color that is neither warm nor cold. It combines yellow, a warm color with blue a cool color to create a neutral ambiance. A monochromatic garden in shades of green is a popular choice for desert landscaping in Las Vegas. Your garden will provide you with a restful, calming color that helps reduce the stress of everyday life.

How to Choose Shades of Green?

The first thing to do is take note of the sunny and shady spots of your garden at different times of the day. That way you will provide the foliage you choose with the proper environment. Next, select a variety of foliage. Mixing different plants adds interest, and the various shades of green add contrast. Several varieties of ferns thrive in the area, including Maidenhair Fern that gives a brilliant green hanging display and Cochise Scaly Cloak Fern that has fascinating symmetrical leaves with dappled designs.

Other plants include:
• Agave with soothing, smooth pale green leaves and an attractive shape
• Crassula with wide shiny brilliant green leaves
• Solieiroolii a close-knit solid green ground cover
• Succulents that are great groundcover but should not be watered from November to March

How to Design a Green Garden?

It may be called a green garden, but that doesn’t mean it lacks color. Texture, form and shades of green all make an appealing show.
• Texture is the contours of the leaf, which may be rough, smooth, fuzzy or waxy.
• Form is the shape of the leaf, which may be feathery, heart-shaped, scalloped or others.
• Color is the shade of green that ranges from dark forest green to pale gray or silver-green.

A Different Kind of Garden

Landscaping need not have a brilliant, colorful show to be attractive. Combining different green foliage can create a captivating and beautiful garden.