White Garden Design

[Veg Learner]

All,

After moving into our new house in March last year and focusing on getting the back garden in order for growing vegetables [raised beds/greenhouse/coldframes] I am now turning my head to sorting out the front garden which at the minute consists of stone pebbles, large rocks, zero flowers and zero green foliage.

My question if anyone can help is I am planning on removing all the stones/rocks, installing a weed barrier and filling the area with topsoil. I'm planning on having solely white flowers, shrubs, bulbs, perennials etc but was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction of where to start. Area of garden in question is only 5m x 1.5m. I'm thinking a couple of dwarf white flowering rhododendrons and perhaps 3 or 4 different species of white flowering tulip varieties planted intermitently in the garden area. When it comes to any other white perennials or shrubs I hit a sticking point as i dont have a clue. I'm also thinking a white climbing plant of some description to climb up a trellis next to the front window.

If anyone has any tips/advice or even the best time of year to plant everything then i'm all ears. Any comments are much appreciated.

Cheers, Ross

[veggiechicken]

Snowdrops, narcissi, sweet rocket, white camellia
Climbers - a Rose maybe Iceberg, jasmine
This might help http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...nghurst-plants

[rustylady]

White clematis for your climber?

[Nicos]

If you have a couple of hours to spare ....you may find this site very helpful...

List of White flowers - Gardenology.org - Plant Encyclopedia and Gardening wiki

[tamsin]

Mexican orange blossom - we've two in our front garden, lovely dark green leaves (or bright yellow/green if you go for a diff variety), gets covered in white flowers in spring and it's evergreen. We keep ours clipped to about waist height but you can let them grow taller. If your going for white flowers then you want something behind to make them stand out - you could plant shorter things in front that flowered later and it would be a great backdrop.

[rinabean]

You can get white versions of lots of things, pick your favourites and see if there's a white version

Look for interesting foliage plants too - you could get pale green-grey or variegated white-green to "match" (as far as is possible of course) or dark purple for contrast. You ought to be able to make sure there's something flowering all around the year, but these will fill in the rest of the bed when their neighbours aren't flowering

I'd go for a rose up the trellis and a winter-flowering clematis through that, a mock orange, a rhododendron and a small apple, heather, lavender, aquilegia, foxgloves, snowdrops, daffodils, tulips, and whatever silver-leaved plants I could find, but those are just my favourite plants that come in white and which have a variety of heights/habits and flowering times. Obviously I prefer a dense planting style too!

[Snadger]

When it snows my garden is luvverley and white...............and just as good as my neighbours!

PS Got some lovely self seeded white foxgloves flowering at the mo and they look pretty as a picture!

[Mikey]

In my last garden we had a lovely rambling rector rose over the doorway, it used to rip my arms to shreds whenever I pruned it but in late spring it was full of the most wonderfully smelling petite white blooms.

[Linnea]

I have a white bed in my garden and have the following in it

Budleja
cornus kousa
Physocarpus
philadelpus
clematis
lillies
peonies
foxgloves
tulips
daffs
crocus
heather
pansy's
phlox
canterbury bells
snowdrops
colchicum
agapanthus
Iris

we also have white rambling roses around the front porch

[Glutton4...]

One of my customers has a white area. There are beautiful white Hydrangeas with a lovely lacey flowers (I can't abide Hydrangeas, generally, but these are really attractive). Also Acanthus and Roses, and a beautiful tall white Aquilegia.