Whiter than white
This extract from AG 15 August 1970 looks at how white flowers can enhance your borders
IT seems far too practical and unimaginative to state boldly that white flowers can be used in many ways to improve our gardens. Can this be because of all the flowers at our disposal, the white ones come nearest to works of art? Detached from the emotional qualities of colour – the warm or angry reds, happy sunny yellows, regal purples or cool or distant blues – white flowers depend only on form, texture and scent. Whereas a red rose is busy repeating ‘a rose is a rose is a rose’ a white lily just stands there and looks back at you.
White flowers emphasise the form of the species to which
