#whiteflowers
Plant of the Day
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Late spring is a great time for tree blossom and Malus transitoria (cut-leaf crabapple) was decked in single white flowers. In the autumn the display is created by tiny yellow fruits and the deeply-lobed leaves which also turn yellow.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 14 May 2022
This amazing Paeonia cultivar was purchased from a market stall. It has grown and flowered wonderfully in the garden despite exposure to some cold winds which are not ideal for a tree peony.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Wednesday 4 May 2022
Recently in London I spotted this white cloud of Clematis montanavar.grandiflora (white anemone clematis) flowers. This is a vigorous large deciduous climber and will clamber over adjacent shrubs and trees attaching by means of a twisted petiole (leaf stalk).
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Sunday 17 April 2022
Seemingly too exotic for this time of year the Primula denticulata (drumstick primula, tooth-leaved primrose) are flowering. This herbaceous perennial produces dense rounded heads of white, pale or deep purple flowers with a yellow eye.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 16 April 2022
The vigorous, deciduous shrub Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Moerloosei’ (Japanese quince, flowering quince) is ideal for fan training on a fence and the bare twigs are smothered in flowers before the glossy, dark green leaves appear. This is a later flowering cultivar with white flowers flushed with dark pink, from March to May. The flowers are often followed by aromatic, greenish-yellow fruit that can be eaten when cooked.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Thursday 14 April 2022
ThisRibes sanguineum ‘Ubric’ (flowering currant, ‘White Icicle’) is a vigorous deciduous shrub which can reach up to 2m. It has pendent racemes of tubular white flowers while the species has pink coloured blooms, both can be followed by bloomy, blue-black fruit.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Wednesday 13 April 2022
The delicate flowers of Fritillaria meleagrisvar.unicolorsubvar.alba (white flowered snake’s head fritillary) are flowering in this garden meadow. This is the white flowered form of the bulbous perennial Fritillaria meleagris which usually has bell-shaped purple flowers, the tepals tessellated with a checkerboard pattern.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Monday 11 April 2022
In a small park in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, the lawn was covered on the petals of Magnolia×soulangeana (saucer magnolia, Chinese magnolia). The petals are edible either raw or fermented and the pink/white flowers are described as having a “gingery, cardamommy flavour”.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 9 April 2022
The beautiful flowers of the herbaceous perennial Ipheion ‘Alberto Castillo’ (starflower) are ideal for edging a path and provide an early spring display. These plants will be summer dormant and are tolerant of partial shade.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Friday 8 April 2022
The spreading deciduous shrub Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’ (Japanese quince) has a habit that creates a tangle of growth, with spiny branches. Here it has been trained along a fence and manages to thrive in the shade of other shrubs. The line of white flowers shine out through the stems of other deciduous shrubs.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Wednesday 6 April 2022
An old and unusual cultivar, Anemone nemorosa ‘Bracteata Pleniflora’ (windflower) has green tips to the white petals. The flowers are also surrounded by green bracts that resembles a green ruff. The rhizomes are ideal for planting as an under storey in the shade beneath deciduous shrubs or hedges.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Monday 4 April 2022
Capable of withstanding flooding and standing water Leucojum aestivum ‘Gravetye Giant’ (summer snowflake) is ideal for bog gardens and pond-side plantings. The white flowers are slightly fragrant with each segment tipped with green.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 2 April 2022
The milk-white flowers of Narcissus ‘Thalia’ (daffodil) are blending with other spring flowering species including a very pale Primula vulgaris (primrose) and the blue Anemone blanda (Balkan anemone, Grecian windflower, winter windflower).
Jill Raggett