All things white and beautiful…

I love a white garden and am gradually turning House’s garden over to white (with hints of black). I love the way the whites glow at night and the way they ‘pop’ with luminescence in the daytime…

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I have a thing about clematis and you will see them here and there. This is a Montana cultivar but in true Prue fashion, have forgotten what…

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Native convolvulus

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Honesty

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Candy Tuft

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Arum lily

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Hebe

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Double white hellebore

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Another Montana with a slight pink tinge

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This clematis I love. Tiny flowers with 5 petals and the faintest green wash.

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Virburnum – Guilder rose

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Last of the freesias

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Lawn daisies

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Lily of the valley

See? I love the whites in the garden. And more to come – white iris, more white clematis, and a rose I love that succumbed to some disease and which will be replaced.

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Vita Sackville West’s white garden at Sissinghurst (above) is the dream and the inspiration.