Country Homes & Interiors

PURE BLISS

he verdant minimalism of a garden or border filled with white flowers offers a natural respite to plant-choice overwhelm. And the world-renowned white borders at Sissinghurst Castle Garden, designed at the end of the 1940s by novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West, show what can be achieved with this limited palette. White flowers have an elegance that works in both a contemporary setting and a more traditional cottage garden design. They

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