White garden
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A White Garden is a feature garden comprising plants that produce white flowers and spathes, and plants with a white or silvery cast to their foliage. The white garden is a variant of the trendy color garden. The most essential aspect to the white garden is its unity of colour. White flowers prevail in the midst of the green.
The white garden is an informal garden style that is to be designed much like the English cottage garden. An open and informal design creates the magic feeling that associates with romance, peace and elegance. The white flowers are not to be placed in clusters, but should be spread throughout the garden's green areas, creating a more natural look and feel. The mildly dense placement of white flowers creates a luminescent sight that is especially powerful in the twilight, but the white flowers should not be placed too densely, because this will look clumsy, unnatural and out of place.
[edit] Symbolism
The colour white, and white flowers in particular, carry a vast amount of symbolism. Primarily white represents all that's good. Florist consensus states that the following white flowers also have a defined meaning[1]:
- White Camelia: Loveliness
- White Chrysanthemum (Daisy): Truth
- White Lilac: Youth, Innocence
- White Lily: Purity, Sweetness
- White Periwinkle: Pleasures of Memory
- White Rose: I am worthy of you.
- White Rosebud: Girlhood
