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PRINTAll-White Flowering Spring Garden
There is something crisp and elegant and beautiful about an all white garden. White flowers come forward dramatically against its natural backdrop of lush greens. To have a garden dressed in glorious white, select as many of the botanicals from this list to suit your landscape. Each of the following plants produces white blooms in springtime from ground cover to treetop. Check with your local garden center to determine which cultivars grow well in your region.
White Flowering Plants:
Azalea bushes
Candytuft
Chinese Wisteria climbing vine
Creeping Phlox (ground cover)
Dogwood tree
Lily-of-the-valleys
Pear trees and Bradford Pear Trees
Pyracanthas shrub
Roses
Shasta Daisies
Snowball bush
Tulips
White Bearded Iris
More theme-garden ideas abound in Deborah Tukua and Vicki West’s beautiful book, Pearls of Garden Wisdom.
Deborah S. Tukua is longtime Farmers' Almanac contrubutor and published author. Her stories "Coffee and Alcohol: Good or Bad for You?" and "Learn How to Can and Freeze" are featured in the 2012 Farmers' Almanac. Read her natural health and wellness blog at Chiropractors' Write Hand.Free Weekly eNewsletter
Farmers' Almanac Long Range Weather
February 8th - February 11th
- Northeast U.S.
Wet snow mixed with rain Mid-Atlantic north through New England; slushy accumulations of 4+" possible.
- Midwest/Great Lakes U.S.
Accumulating snows Kentucky, Ohio, then clearing. Fair elsewhere.
- Southeast U.S.
Wet snow Tennessee, western North Carolina; wintry mix northern Mississippi, Alabama. Elsewhere, rain, then clearing.
- North Central U.S.
Drier, much colder.
- South Central U.S.
Snow parts of Arkansas, then clearing, cold. Clear, much colder elsewhere.
- Northwest U.S.
Drier, but colder.
- Southwest U.S.
Drier, but noticeably colder.
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