The wonder garden · Styles
The White Garden
About this style
Inspired by Vita Sachville-West’s innovative planting at Sissinghurst, the White Garden brings together a wide variety of white flowering shrubs and perennials. Depth and contrast are created through the use of different forms, shapes and foliage colour, and the result is calming, elegant and highly versatile style that works equally well in contemporary, traditional or historical settings.
Whilst the palest blues, pinks or lime greens can be included, yellow is not, as it is deemed to visually ‘muddy’ the pure whites of other blooms.
Popular plants
Rose, Hydrangea, Lilac, Delphinium, Allium, Actea, Eryngium, Leucanthemum, Phlox, Stachys, Cosmos, Anenome.
Aspects suited to this style
Part Sun · Full Sun · Shade
Soil types suited to this style
Clay · Soil · Sandy · Chalk
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