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Still Longing For White Blooms

“A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.” ~Rumi

Those who have followed me for many years might remember that I had a white garden at my old house. It was a great lesson in perfection and acceptance. And it was a wonderful creative journey to find plants that flowered white all three seasons.

There are days now when I see white blooms around me and I think back on my white garden, and miss it. White is such a peaceful color in the garden, and why I chose it for a special garden.

My recent longing for white started when I noticed my beautiful Proven Winners Firelight Tidbit petite hydrangea (above) flowering profusely this year. The first spring/summer Proven Winners sent it to me to trial (2021) it flowered beautifully. Then I had to cut it back and move it that fall when the rental company made me move and change my garden. I wasn’t sure it would come back. It did nicely last year although it didn’t grow much. But this year it did with bells on, as they say!

Then I saw all the white flowering Queen Anne’s Lace around the fields and I kept wanting to cut some.

In my containers a few white zinnia

and pansies (yes they are still going strong even in the heat) showed up too with white Morning Glory,

and white bacopa (above) and Angelonia.

So here are some of the white vases I made. Before I could cut the white hydrangea blooms, they began to turn reddish-pink and green so I mixed some new white blooms with the pink.

Queen Anne is always glorious in a vase especially with a bit of the greenish-white/silvery Licorice plant (Helichrysum petiolare) that is currently filling a container in my garden.

And of course many of the whites from my containers that I highlighted above.

I may not have an all white garden anymore,

but I have white plants that bring peace and serenity to my garden just the same.

With this week’s lovely vases, I am linking in to the wonderful meme, In A Vase On Monday, at Rambling in the Garden.

All the pictures shared in this post were taken with my Nikon Coolpix or iPhone camera, and manipulated on my iPhone using the apps, Pixlr and Prisma. You can follow my progress with #the100dayproject in my Instagram and Facebook feed.

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19 Replies to “Still Longing For White Blooms”

  1. I am so glad your hydrangea has bloomed properly for you again, as I can see how much it has assisted in the joy and peace you find in white blooms. You must be thrilled to have created these white posies, Donna.

  3. That is a beautiful hydrangea – I love it when they turn pink. And QAL is one of my summer favorites. Wonderful.

    1. I love the pinking too as I call it. I feel all snuggly and ready for the end of summer when white hydrangeas change.

  4. That’s a pretty hydrangea Donna but sadly not the most attractive of names. Is it growing in a container? It’s only when you see a variety of white flowers growing in a garden that you realise that there are so many shades of white We once visited the White Garden at Sissinghurst created by Vita Sackville West. It was absolutely breathtaking.

    1. Now I would love to see that white garden. No this hydrangea is in the ground. One of the handful they let me keep in the ground. With our winters hydrangeas don’t survive in containers.

  6. And you can bring them indoors to enjoy close up too Donna. A lovely hydrangea, and the hint of pink is quite special.

  7. A lovely compilation, Donna! White is so useful in a garden and a vase. I wish I had more of it myself and need to be more deliberate about selecting white-flowering plants. I admire the Hydrangea and only wish those plants were a little less thirsty.

  8. I’ve never had a dedicated white garden but I so agree about white flowers. My heart went out to you when you were forced to change your garden so I’m delighted to see the Firelight Tidbit doing so well. Love the way you’ve assembled your vases this week. Take care.
    P.S. My white angelonia is having trouble staying in bloom. I have two in separate locations and neither one is happy.

    1. Thanks so much. I found if my Angelonias were in a more shady location especially in the afternoon they kept blooming this year.

  9. (Hope this doesn’t create a duplicate. Having trouble from your security page.)
    I’ve never had a dedicated white garden but I so agree about white flowers. My heart went out to you when you were forced to change your garden so I’m delighted to see the Firelight Tidbit doing so well. Love the way you’ve assembled your vases this week. Take care.
    P.S. My white angelonia is having trouble staying in bloom. I have two in separate locations and neither one is happy.

  10. Beautiful white blooms, Donna. They are so graceful, elegant, and beautiful. We’ve visited several gardens over the years that had white “rooms” that glowed in the evening and the night. 🙂

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