Specialty Gardening: White Flower Garden/ Anyone Have One? Or suggestions?, 4 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Birder I love your plant choices. We have so many of the same types of plants with some variations. I have viburnum plicatum tomentosum \'Pink Beauty\' , which usually booms in white, which is what I wanted. I got several fab ones from Plant and Gnome. My white allium, ramosum, blooms in fall. I had an allegheny serviceberry at my former home. I have deutzia \'Chardonnay Pearls\'.

I also acquired lots of white roses and peonies. Lately I have been putting in bursts of red to liven things up.

Thank you for the tip on gaura. I have always loved the look of it but thought my soil might be too rich.

I actually planned my garden for fall so that I would have a lot going on then, and then moved backwards to spring.

For spring, I also go after white Daffodils. My favorite is Mount Hood. It actually starts out with a cream colored cup that turns white. For fall it\'s hard to beat anemone x hybrida Honorine Jobert, and the salvias keep blooming all year, seed, and come back in spring. For spring anemone blanda White Splendor. And white chionodoxa. I love plants you can put in that don\'t require a lot of effort and come back for you. Arabis caucausica is like that, and it blooms repeatedly and stays grey green all year long into winter.

Right now the chionodoxa and arabis are in bloom. If you put in the right stuff, your garden gets fuller and fuller every year with little additional effort from you. I had to leave my old garden and start over in 2012, and I\'m shocked at how full it is. And now that the housing boom is over, it\'s really easy to get discounted plants. I have ordered everything, and it\'s usually 25% to 50% off. Santa Rosa Gardens is amazing preseason, and High Country Roses lets you buy gift certificates for yourself at 25% off.