As summer rolls on, I am still struggling to choose from a huge range of options to show here every Saturday. I have once again chosen a colour theme. This week I will focus on white flowers, often overlooked by those of us who love bright bold colours, yet these blooms glow right into evening and provide great contrast for cut flowers. Here are six wonderful white’s for my #SixOnSaturday.
First a patch of oxeye daisy winds its way through a narrow border near the garden path. Each one has a neat form, and a whole swathe is so bright and cheerful.
A lot less exuberant for my second choice. Yet potato flowers signify tasty dinners to come and have a delicate scent (which can be overwhelming en masse….near my home grow huge fields of tatties that offer a musky heady smell on warm windy days. Notice the tiny fine hairs across each petal and down the stems.
I didn’t realise that the mixed zinnia seeds I’d sowed would give me white blooms. Given the trouble needed to make these exotic beauties grow in this part of the world, I’m not sure this is my favourite variety, but is it one of the few that has made it past cold rain and hungry snails.
I am fond of astrantia. This is the closest I have to pure white. The tiny details on every flower are breathtaking.
Making its own way into the garden is a native mallow. Pretty, although can get in the way as it likes to pop up right along the path boundaries.
For my last this week, the cool weather is keeping sweetpeas happy. This one is highly fragrant, almost perfect white, with a tiny hint of lilac along the boundary of each petal.
That’s my #SixOnSaturday for this week. Join the sixes on Mastodon or other instances in the Fediverse via #SixOnSaturday, we need a few more folk to toot on the topic: come join us. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. Also on twitter @JamesLStephens. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot