All-White Gardens Light Up the Night
Have you ever wandered through a backyard at night? While the sounds and scents seem to intensify, it is usually difficult to enjoy any of those sights without a flashlight. A white backyard is a different story: You will want to leave the flashlight behind and revel in how the white blossoms glow. Not only are those luminous blooms beautiful to check at, but many have intense night fragrances and bring wonderful white nocturnal pests for its whole sensory experience.
Here you will find ideas for plants with beautiful white blooms, how to arrange them and how to work them in your garden’s style.
Hydrangeas are perfect in formal gardens but work just too in more informal settings. A path lined with those beauties is the best sidewalk manual for nighttime strolls.
Amy Renea
Spiraea is a great choice for a snowy spring bloomer. It conveniently blooms at precisely the exact same time as tall white iris and midsize white peonies. Combine these 3 plants to get an easy-care, high-impact garden.
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC
Working with a shady place? White astilbe is your solution. Brightening the darkest color with waving plumes of white, astilbe is a timeless, easy-to-grow shade perennial.
Tips to get a White-Blooming Border
Produce a mix of heights that will bloom at precisely the exact same moment. This boundary does a fantastic job of spreading the blooms to create a balanced appearance.
Deborah Cerbone Associates, Inc..
Imagine what this walkway looks like at night — small dance blooms all along the left side and a wave of glistening white softening the fence to the right. Pure magic!
Glenna Partridge Garden Design
Consider situating white plants round curves from the backyard. When you’re strolling through a garden at night, it is helpful to observe the twists and turns forward, so use white blooms as a natural type of fluorescent arrow.
Glenna Partridge Garden Design
Your white backyard doesn’t need to be expansive. Plant a few white flowering plants close to the entrance of your home. When people approach the front door at dusk, they’ll be greeted by observable blooms.
Working White Blooms Into Every Garden Style
Conventional. White gardens may go ubertraditional with row after row of white blooms perfectly set in geometric arrangements.
Lenkin Design Inc: Landscape and Garden Design
Another option is to encase a sea of white-blooming showstoppers in boxes of trimmed hedges.
AHBL
Rustic. Go to get a more organic, woodland appearance by integrating minimally pruned trees and naturalistic plantings.
Aiken House & Gardens
Victorian. Charming at the daytime and enchanting at night, this snowy backyard is full to bursting with blooms. Choose white furnishings iron, wicker or wood to add to the theme.
Whether you are gilding the lily of a classic trimmed estate or beginning a nation garden from scratch, consider the effect white blooms can have on your space. Create an all-white backyard, add a few white bloomers around curves, or line paths that night travelers will be taking.
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