I was in my garden today, and took a lot of pictures. I am experimenting with using the “gallery” feature of wordpress, trying different configurations and such. Hadn’t used it with the latest update (or two or three) so still figuring things out (check back again tomorrow for another post).
White is, in my opinion, generally an under-used color in the garden. In shady spaces, it glows. In sunny places it shines. It stands out against cool colors, it highlights bright colors, it cools down warm colors. Used in masses the textures of the flowers show up beautifully with white.
There are several different lovely white-flowering plants in the garden right now, my favorite is the trailing blackberry, which blooms and fruits first, and looks JUST like the layer of stars that a native legend talks about. I also love the fruit trees and the final picture, of the canopy of pink-tinged blossoms on the larger quince tree, just makes me so happy. I appreciate how this tree holds its blossoms up, unlike so many of the others that hide blossoms under and between the leaves.
You can click on the thumbnails to get to a larger picture of each.
Happy Spring!