Did you ever think of creating a white garden... a miniature Sissinghurst perhaps? I must admit that I've thought about it... but where would it go as there is no space for any new additions...
I could remove the daffodil/daylily bed... hmmm, sounds like a lot of work... and after all, most winters it is a white garden for at least a few months...
I really do wish I had planted more white flowered crab apples.... I much prefer them to the brighter colors that fade so quickly... I suppose this area back towards the gazebo wouldn't make much of a white garden... then again, it is white for many weeks every year as well...
At least I planted white flowering crabs along the perimeter of the cottage garden which does extend its white season a bit... after all, it's white for a few months every year also...
The path to the northeast garden certainly wouldn't make much of a white garden... by the time the mature trees were removed, it would lose most of its character... then again, it's white for a few months a year anyway...
Perhaps there is some room in the west lawns... digging all that sod would take a lot of work though... and of course, it's white pretty much every winter...
I suppose I could have planted only hostas with white variegation in their foliage to go with the white birch trunks... but I just redid that area a year or two ago... and it is white a few months of the year...
Most of the magnolias in the magnolia circle are white varieties, but these four from the little girl's series are not... they're really too big to move now, and guess what.... this area is white at least a few months every year...
This Snowdrift crab certainly fits the white theme... too bad its bloom period is only a couple of weeks... but this part of the garden is white about three month of the year or more so...
The brick path garden?... probably not since it's white for several months a year already...
The northeast conifer bed... well the pillar is a start... then again... every winter...
Now that I think about it, I do have my white gardens with all the personality of a Sissinghurst... they display two faces. By day, peaceful, calm... monochromatic. After dark the gardens are lurid and romantic... luminous in the moonlight... and downright cold !!!
Gosh... creating those dreamy white gardens was easier than I thought... thanks to Mother Nature and our zone 5 climate! Larry
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