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7°CSnow, The Walled Garden, Photograph by Jenny Lilly
“Snow-white is very vague. There is nearly always so much blue about the colour of snow, from its crystalline surface and partial transparency, and the texture is so unlike that of any kind of flower, that the comparison is scarcely permissable. I take it that the use of ‘snow-white’ is, like that of ‘golden-yellow’, more symbolical than descriptive, meaning any white that gives an impression of purity… I should say that most white flowers are near the colour of chalk; for although the word chalky-white has been used in a rather contemptuous way, the colour is really a very beautiful warm white, but by no means an intense white.”
Gertrude Jekyll, Wood and Garden, 1899
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- Galanthus nivalis
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- Persicaria
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- Glasshouse door
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- John Sutton Nettlefold
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- Erinus alpinus
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- Side vent, Lean-to Glasshouse
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- Agave
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- Chalk board
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- Sempervivum ‘Kramers Spinrad’
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- Used plant labels
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- Mildew on courgette leaf
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- Epilobium
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- Lean-to Glasshouse
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- Cleisocactus
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- Mushroom and Quercus rubra
Wendy Syddall
I love growing white flowers especially foxgloves, cosmos and Japanese anemones.
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Wendy. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. We have a border at Winterbourne dedicated solely to white flowered perennials such as foxgloves and cosmos backed by a beautiful purple beech hedge. Very dramatic!
sconzani
Fifty shades of white? Love it!
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Annie. Fifty Shades of White would have been an excellent title for this post! Might have brought a few more curious readers to Digging for Dirt as well…
sconzani
Perhaps not the type of readers you want wandering in your lovely garden though. 😉
Chloris
I love white flowers, I can give the mildew a miss though.
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Liz. Luckily our courgettes were so brutish they just carried on cropping heavily regardless! We did try an experiment in our Walled Garden this year though. We mulched half heavily with homemade compost and left the other half to their own devices. Those that were mulched showed far more resistance to mildew.
Oddment
This past summer I planted a some white impatiens under a leprous crabapple tree and they made even that tree look good. They exploded into a brilliant show. I thoroughly enjoyed your tribute to white — and the comments too!
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Maureen. Your crab apple tree sounds full of character! Plenty of support for Fifty Shades of White. Perhaps a bonus post for Christmas?!
Frogend_dweller
Lovely quote. Slighty haughty, but so right! The eskimos have snow whites nailed. Great illustrations and your white patty pan look particularly tasty.
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Allison. The gardener’s are yet to taste the squash – our visitors have had them all! They were a really good cropper so we’ll definitely be growing them next year.
sallysgarden2013
I really enjoyed these images and this blog post, I am making a white garden, with each year that passes the White Veronicasatrum becomes more stately and stunning,
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Sally. Your white garden sounds lovely. White has certainly been the most popular of the colours we have covered in this mini-series. What to do next… perhaps black?
sallysgarden2013
Black, an interesting thought !.. I like to use it more of a backdrop, I had an old shed in a garden a few years back that was black, and I planted a long row of Rudbeckia herbstonne in front of it, it looked particulalry striking. Also Verbena against our garage door (also black) looked pretty sharp. Sally
Annie
A very fun collage of whites in the garden! I had great plans for an all-white garden, perhaps with white wine enjoyed on a garden bench occasionally… however other colors seem to tempt me too much and my all-white garden has become mostly-white. Enjoyed this post!
Winterbourne House and Garden
Hello Annie. Glad you enjoyed our white post so much. Hadn’t thought of white wine – what an oversight! Won’t make the same mistake when we do red…