“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.
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