Posts tagged: white flowers
White Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectablis ‘Alba’) Another shade perennial that deer don’t eat.
© AES 2011
Annabelle Hydrangeas…great east coast native shrub.
Glorious Hydrangeas in my Garden
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Art painting by Olga Wisinger-Florian 1844 - 1926 Austrian impressionist painter, mainly of landscapes and flower still lifes
Simply lovely hedge garden and pool.
Plants for the Night Garden: White flowered annuals and grey/silver leaved perennials that will glow in moonlight. Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris), Angelonia angustifolia ‘Cart White’, Cleome hassleriana ‘White Queen’, Salvia argentea, Painted Fern (Anthyrium ‘Ghost’), Snake Plant (Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Siver Queen’). From Longwood Gardens blog.
Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ is just ending blooming at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
White Wisteria at Hidcote Manor Garden near Hidcote Bartrim, Gloustershire in the U.K. Designed by American horticulturalist Major Lawrence Johnson starting in 1910.
Catalpas: Out of fashion but still loved by some of us. Blooming now in the Washington D.C. area, this great U.S. native shade tree can get 60’x40’. Plantsman Allan Bush wrote an excellent post on Catalpas in Garden Rant today: http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2012/05/catalpa.html.
Opium Poppies (Papaver somniferum) blooming in a field in India where they are grown as a government regulated crop. Photographed by Charlotte Weycham while she was traveling with English garden designer and author of many garden design books, John Brookes.
My Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) are just beginning to peep through. Love those fragrant little bells. Is anyone growing the pink one (C.m. ‘Rosea’)?
Pheasant’s Eye Daffodils (Narcissus poeticus) are blooming now at Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the U.S. Its fragrance is the essence of spring.
This garden by Ulf Nordfjell won Best of Show at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2009. Materials: Laser cut stainless steel and glass pavilion with granite stones. Planting in silver, white, and blue.
