Green Garland – Documentation

Nov 3, 2026 · @Samuel

Green Garland adds artificial leaf garlands to Blender and places them four ways: wrapped around an object, along a curve, hanging, or draped in swags.

Installation

Green Garland needs Blender 4.2 or newer and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

1.       Download green_garland-1.0.0.zip. Don't unpack it.

2.       In Blender open Edit > Preferences > Get Extensions.

3.       Click the arrow in the top right corner, choose Install from Disk and pick the zip.

4.       Open the 3D Viewport sidebar (N). The Green Garland tab is there.

The zip is about 450 MB, because all 20 garlands and their 2K textures are inside. To update, install the new zip the same way.

Quick start

1.       Add a cylinder, or select any mesh you want to dress.

2.       In the Green Garland tab, pick a plant in the New Garland preview.

3.       Click Wrap. The garland spirals around the selected object.

4.       Change Turns Per Metre, or click Loose, Medium or Dense, until the spacing looks right.

For the other placements: select a curve and click Curve, or place the 3D cursor and click Hang or Swag. Every garland is a normal object with one Geometry Nodes modifier, so you can move, duplicate and hide it like anything else.

Placements

You pick the placement when you add a garland. You can switch it later in the Placement box.

Wrap

Select a mesh and click Wrap. The garland spirals around the object's local X, Y or Z axis and hugs its surface, so it works on round columns, square pillars, thin poles, spheres and your own models.

Curve

Draw a curve, select it and click Curve. The garland follows the curve from its first point to its last. If the leaves face sideways, change Roll in the Garland box or the tilt of the curve points. On a flat curve drawn in the front view, a tilt of 90° usually turns the leaves towards you.

Hang

Place the 3D cursor where the garland should hang from and click Hang. Set Length and Sway, a gentle S-shape. The garland always hangs straight down, even when the object is rotated.

Swag

Place the 3D cursor at the start point. Select the end point object, or nothing at all – the add-on then creates an Empty called Garland End 2 m to the side. Click Swag. Move the Empty to set the span. Swags sets how many dips the garland makes between the two points, and Sag sets how deep they are. You can also pick another end object in the End Point field.

Panel reference

Select a garland to see its settings. All changes are live.

Viewport

Garland

Variants In The Mix

One garland can use up to ten plants. Add Variant adds a plant, Share sets how often it is used, and the X removes it. Change, at the top of the panel, swaps the main plant.

Leaves

Color

Hue Shift, Saturation and Brightness change the whole garland. Random Per Piece and Random Per Leaf add natural variation.

Performance, rendering and sharing

•         In heavy scenes set the viewport preview to Low or Dummy, or use All: Dummy. Renders still use full geometry.

•         Wrapping is calculated against the wrapped object's surface. Very dense meshes can make changes slower; a simpler stand-in object works just as well.

•         The garlands were made and tested in Cycles.

•         The garland data is stored in your .blend file. The scene opens and renders on any computer with Blender 4.2 or newer, even without the add-on, and render farms need nothing extra.

•         To get a plain mesh, apply the Geometry Nodes modifier like any other modifier.

•         Garlands made with an older version of the add-on show an Update Garlands button. It converts them and keeps their settings.

Troubleshooting

Variants

20 garlands, each about 1.76 m long before chaining, with 2K leaf textures.

Green Garland 1.0.0 by SLAVIK DSGN.