Whether it’s for a wedding or just everyday living, an all white garden can have a dramatic and very vibrant effect on your yard or patio. The key is to mix different shades and textures, helping you to add some dimension to a monochromatic color scheme. Adding shades of green foliage can also add contrast, without adding a whole new color. Instead of having an entire white garden, you can always add containers as focal points in the yard. The best part, an all white container garden looks good in any color pot you put it in!
For sun:
Most common sun annuals come in a shade of white, and look great combined in a container. This includes bacopa, verbena, petunias, alyssum and many more.For a larger pot or area, a white mandevilla or dipladenia can make a nice statement. You can also use perennials such as pentas and salvia for some height, as well as multiple seasons of color.
This arrangement uses white flowering annuals: gazanias, alyssum, kalanchoes, and diamond frost euphorbia. Some white foliage color was added using variegated ivy and white ‘icicles’ helichrysum.
For shade:
White flowers and foliage can really brighten up a shady spot. For white blooms, try begonias, fuchsias, and kalanchoes. There are a lot of foliage plants for shade that have some white variegation, like caladiums, ny and calathias. Ivies and vinca vine can act as nice trailers and have some white variegation as well.
These white Reiger begonias make a nice statement for a shade garden. Foliage plants like vinca vine and calandrinia accent with white variegation.
If you love color just too much to go all white, try an all white container with a few splashes of color mixed in. Plants like caladiums, gazanias and osteospermum daisies are mostly white with a touch of color in the flowers or leaf veins.