A white flower garden is a classic. It is found in all famous English gardens ... The secret is that a monochrome white flower garden is easier to create than a multi-colored composition with white ...
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Fragrant jasmine bushes |
White as a symbol of light, kindness and purity is always different and always filled with a little more meaning than just color. He ennobles things, making them dressy and stylish or romantic. White accentuates the winter garden graphics and foams with flowering trees in the spring garden. White monochrome flower beds have become more popular than multi-colored mixborders with the addition of white, not only because there are many white plants, but also because combining white with other flowers is a rather difficult task.
The insidiousness of this color is that in a white flower garden, various shades merge and the eye is able to distinguish only lighter and darker tones. Therefore, white is difficult to combine with other colors and use in nuanced compositions. And yet, only white plants are never used in white flower beds, delicately shading them with pink, blue, creamy yellow, silvery, light and dark greens.
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White irises and poppies |
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White peonies, forget-me-nots, yaskolka, geychera and irises |
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Brunner large-leaved |
In modern garden exhibitions, white sets the tone for the exhibition, because the choice of white plants determines whether it is a modern fashion theme or a timeless classic. So here are some examples of how to create a themed white room or white flower garden in your garden.
A SHRUB MIXBORDER, planted by the fence, along the house or even along the lawn line, will require the least maintenance. The selection of white shrubs is huge. You can plant a spiraea garden of successively flowering spireas: Grefsheim gray spirea, Wangutta medium spirea, low (foreground plants) spiraea: nippon and birch leaves, adding varieties of summer flowering Japanese spirea Albiflora and Shirobana (Shirobana inflorescences change color from pink to white ). Background plants - common lilac, Boule de Neige viburnum, fragrant jasmine bushes 0– will be a magical flowering background, and the white-bordered foliage of the white turf Sibirica Variegata and Elegantissima, the crown jasmine Variegata will make the mixborder decorative not only for the time of flowering shrubs.
All summer long the wrinkled rose Alba and the cinquefoil Abbotswood will bloom. Also, the heroes of the summer garden will be the tree hydrangea Anabelle (foreground of the flower garden) and varieties of panicle hydrangea (middle tier). If you plant flowering carpets of crocuses, chionodox, tulips, daffodils under the bushes, then the garden will be decorative all season and will require minimal maintenance - what else is needed in an eternal lack of time?
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Spirea gray Grefsheim |
White-flowering and white-bordered plants greatly adorn the SHADOW GARDEN, adding light to it. In the background of a white flower garden, you can plant a magnificent dicenter, Album and Bicolor aconite, cage-shaped loosestrife with drooping inflorescences, black cohosh, blue lobelia. The middle tier will be Astrantia, a graceful curly lily album. Indispensable in the shade are the white and pink varieties of Astilba Arends Washington, Rock & Roll, Sister Therese. The composition will be complemented by decorative foliage of blue textured leaves of a huge Siebold hosta Blue Angel or variegated host plants of the foreground - Patriot, Revolution, Ghost Spirit, Remember Me, white-bordered varieties of large-leaved brunner. The leaves with a silvery speck of low sugar lungwort Mrs Moon, Cambridge Blue, Majeste, -spotted beacon Silver and White Nancy look original. For contrast, be sure to add dark green foliage to your flower garden.
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Veronica virginskaya, hydrangea Anabelle and Louis' wormwood |
A white room can also be made on a NATURAL AREA in a composition with BIRCH. The trick is to pick up white plants that will take out not only shade, but also dry land, because birches are very active in taking water from the soil.Against the background of white trunks on a carpet of ground cover flowering heart-leaved tiarka, white-flowered spirea Vangutta, field ashberry, and jasmine crown will bloom beautifully. Such a Central Russian white garden ... In order for the composition to remain beautiful after flowering, you can plant variegated white turf, Volzhanka dioecious bushes, add an exquisite hybrid Striatum Kupena, bright spots of variegated ground cover with decorative foliage.
A white flower garden always appears in the CLASSIC ROMANTIC GARDEN. It is built on a combination of shades of white, silver, pink and blue. An indispensable condition is the use of fragrant plants. To add splendor to the flower garden, you should choose white peonies, phloxes and monards. The vertical line is emphasized by white and pink delphiniums. Foxgloves can be planted in the middle tier. Supplementary plants here can be blue-white milk-flowered bells, openwork gypsophila paniculata, oregano. Roses and lilies are classic romantic choices. In the foreground, you can plant delicate border geraniums, and oak sage Snow White and Fassen's catnip will give the composition a spicy aroma. The image of a romantic flower garden will be completed by the silvery foliage of Veronica Kolosova, Chiseta and Anaphalis.
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Derain white Elegantissima |
A STYLISH white FLOWER is better to build on contrasting combinations, including plants with an original bush shape and an expressive shape of inflorescences. If you want to be in the mainstream of fashionable landscape trends, think about cereals. The vertical will be created by the reed grass Overdam, veronicastrum, liatris spikelet, graphic sandy elimus, clumps of long-term physostegy of the Virginian Alba. Here are a few more plants that are in fashion today: erythematosus, Virginia tradescantia, stonecrop Autumn Charm, Mount Everest, Mont Blanc bows (today they are used in the most fashionable gardens in France and Holland). Pay attention to the original color of the foliage of the large-leaved Brunner Jack Frost (with white veins), the new varieties of Heuchera Saturn and Venus and the double flowers of the white Echinacea Coconut Lime. For contrast, you can use the purple color of sage, iris, tradescantia, geranium, veronica, or purple-leaved plants. For example, geranium, black cohosh Brunette, birchwood Сhocolate.
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Virginia Tradescantia, leeks, white roses, falaris and hosta Alba | Chelsea 2007 |
You can think of a lot of white rooms, because this color is appropriate in any garden style.
Lyudmila Belykh Seasons magazine
