1. You don't need green fingers to fill your home with lush leaves.

2. You really do have green fingers.

3. Tonight these dames were going to have greener fingers than Percy Thrower.

4. Mother has green fingers.

5. He had green fingers, my grandfather. He could grow anything.

6. I never have green fingers.

7. Potted plants always die with me. I'm afraid I haven't got green fingers.

8. I cannot tell a dahlia from a daffodil, but my wife has very green fingers.

9. It was a metaphoric ( al ) phrase; we didn't really mean that he has green fingers, only that he is good.