White flowers are deceptively innocent-looking. The perfect flowers for blending more aggressive colors in a harmonious border, the light-reflecting illuminators of the evening garden, white flowers--along with the bright yellows--advance closer to us while darker colors recede from us, making their presence known against the backdrop of all other hues on the chroma scale.
Early spring Snowdrop anemone, the ever-spreading windflower anemones sylvestris, above. Cutting these back will encourage fall bloom. When allowed to go to seed, the puffballs will scatter themselves in shady moist areas
The orchid-white Thalia narcissus. These form steadily growing, ever-more beautiful clumps year by year.
White Snowcap, arabis caucasica, an early-blooming groundcover that provides a nice backdrop for the yellows and pinks of spring and provides green for the rest of the year
Perfect Memorial Day double white peony.
Cheerful white Shasta daisies bloom mid-summer
Indispensable, ever-blooming white rose shrubs
Tall, fragrant, incomparable David phlox
The sparkling Hibiscus Syriacus Double White Rose of Sharon blooms in the heat of July
One of the best of the hardy salvia nemora, Snow Hill blooms from early summer through until fall
A late summer compositae, the sturdy fragrant white echinacea
The sheer bright reflectiveness of white flowers makes them an easy subject for photography.
The sheer bright reflectiveness of white flowers makes them an easy subject for photography.
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