Blame it on a love of color, but there is never enough white in my gardens and were I a truly disciplined gardener, this might not be the case. What if I decided I'd like an actual white garden afterall? Perhaps I'll look about the garden a bit and see what I have for raw materials...
 |
| Gallium odoratum like a green head of hair with a bad case of dandruff |
I am starting to experiment with more of the Rutger's hybrid dogwoods hoping they will prove hardy here... I can't imagine a prettier tree in the spring... especially the white cultivars...
+Dogwood+(Cornus).jpg) |
| Cornus x ' Rutgan' 'Celestial'... beautiful under the stars and in the light of day as well |
+&+tricolor+beech.jpg)
My friend Beth at 'Beyond The Garden Gate' got me thinking about this with her newest post in which she talks about her hopes for a newly designated white garden next season.
I suspect there is some liberty to be taken regarding the various shades of white available to the gardener... would the 'antique lace' of Persicaria polymorpha be acceptable for example...
... or along the same color spectrum, climbing hydrangea, also with a bit of 'antique' coloration...
Then of course, in early spring there would have to be white hellebores...
And bulbs like croci ...
and daffodils...
May would certainly include Phlox subulata...
perhaps as a follow-up to April's trilliums...
there would be lots of flowering crab apples... all in white of course,
Delicates like Primula sieboldii...
... and nodders like Anemone sylvestris...
Well... after a day of bizarre technical malfunctions here, my internet is back up and I can continue observing the whites in my gardens... they're starting to add up a bit and here are some more...
 |
| There are several stellata magnolias in the gardens... in a good year without frost they are a lovely white |
 |
| White digitalis are just about my favorite foxgloves |
 |
| Crambe cordifolia not only works well with the foxgloves, but it is an excellent 'see through' plant |
 |
| With only a touch of lemon to its white, Magnolia tripetala might also work in the white garden |
+Natchez+18-04-36.jpg) |
| Among choice shrubs, one might consider Phildelphus 'Natchez' |
Well... I've pretty much convinced myself that I have the raw materials for a white garden... whether I have the ambition to move all these plants and numerous others of the white persuasion to a central location is certainly another matter. There is one cultivar of magnolias that is as white in bloom as any I've ever seen...
 |
| Magnolia 'Wada's Memory' |
Enough daydreaming... unlike Beth, I have no real plans for a white garden in the near future... maybe I'll concentrate on the possibility of a white Christmas!
Scenes such as these pictured below from past winters can't be all that far off! Larry
0 nhận xét:
Đăng nhận xét