Blue & White Spring Garden
We’ve been collecting just about every kind of perennial that is suitable for our zone that we can get ahold of. And now that our gardens are reaching maturity, it’s becoming easier and easier to see which plants complement each other well.
Walking through the garden today, we see lots of opportunities for a blue and white themed collection. If I was planting a blue and white garden for spring and early summer. I’d be sure to include these elements in close proximity to one another.
Spring flowers: (in order of bloom)
-white/green hellebore (short)
-blue and white scilia in mass plantings to allow them to naturalize (very short)
-white ‘Ice King’ daffodils (short)
-white ‘Thalia’ mini daffodils (short)
-blue and white muscari (very short)
-blue and white hyacinth (short)
-’Stainless’ daffodils (short)
-white lilac (tall shrub/tree)
-amsonia ‘Hubrichtii’ (about 2 feet - tidy)
-white ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ / ‘Poet’s Eye’ daffodils (short)
-camassia cusickii (medium about 3ft)
-solomon’s seal (medium about 3ft)
-camassia quamash (about 12 inches)
-white double columbine (2.5ft)
-spirea ‘Bridal Veil’ (tall)
-bearded iris ‘Boston Cream’, ‘Repeat the Blues’, ‘Sea Eagle’
-baptisia (medium, about 4ft tall)
-single white peony (medium, about 3ft tall)
-double white peony (medium, about 3ft tall)
To add contrast of color and visual interest, I’d also add:
-cushion spurge (chartreuse and yellow mounded foliage, about 2.5 ft tall)
-cimicifuga (dark, chocolate-colored foliage with white flower spikes later in the season, about 3ft tall)
-lady’s mantle (low foliage only in spring, flowers follow at about 1.5 ft tall)
-tiny wine ninebark or a larger variety (tall shrub, ~8ft)
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