Comments on: Green and white: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2008

By: carolyn

carolyn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:05:33 +0000

I work as a nursery manager at a landscape co. in Michigan. As such I recieve many calalogs from growers to wholesalers and I have noticed more and more green flowered plants. I have long admired the ‘White Garden’ by Gertrude Jekell at Sisinghust Castle in England, and have often dreamed of creating one for myself…in the last two years I have been compiling a list of green, green and white plants and flowers. If anyone is interested in this list I would be gald to share. Also if anyone has any pics of such a garden I would love to see them.
Happy Planting
Carolyn

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By: Ruthe

Ruthe — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:06:12 +0000

Have you ever seen green and white trilliun? Imagine my surprise when I found a bed of the large white trillium with many, many green and white ones. I think it may be a genetic defect.

By: Gardensbydesign

Gardensbydesign — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:13:02 +0000

Very pleasing to the eyes. Love the color combos and overall arrangement.

By: Mary Ann Newcomer

Mary Ann Newcomer — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:50:15 +0000

Yeah! You got the pictograph and I love your list of what you won’t get for Mother’s Day. I am still thinking of my list of junk. Will get back to you on that.

The great white (trillium) almost made me swoon.

And guess what? My colchicums have sent up leaves! Finally!

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:17:53 +0000

I’ve found myself admiring green and white combinations in my garden as well. One of my favorite pictures is of Shasta daisy blooms with white-flowering oxalis and spider plant.

And as an added bonus, I love how the whites really glow at twilight.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:02:13 +0000

Kathy, since we can’t grow Brunnera or Trilliums, I think that’s my favorite picture. Then again, that little veronica is awfully cute, too …

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:26:03 +0000

Green and white looks so clean and fresh. I think that’s why I love lambs ear so much because it is that cool green/blue with white fuzz.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:48:23 +0000

Those violets are absolutely beautiful and you are the second person I read about today with trilliums. Every spring I look for them in the wild, and take pictures, but have never grown them. SO pretty!

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:28:33 +0000

Hi, all-- The bulbous oat grass (Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum 'Variegatum') came from Elisabeth Sheldon, author of Time and the Gardener, among others. I used to have it on the western side of a lilac, and almost lost it. It is much happier on the moister, shady north side of the house, though even there it starts looking pretty scruffy during the hottest, driest part of the summer. As long as we get autumn rains it bounces right back.