High Drama

If you want to create drama in your garden, by all means, pick all white flowers. People don’t usually crave intensity in a cottage garden, which is a care free collection of gregarious annuals and perennials suited to comfort the spirit rather than stir it up.
Most of the cottage garden staples do come in white however, and you certainly can get the look if you find it appealing. Here is a list of perennials that will carry the white flower theme through all the seasons.
For spring, hyacinths, peonies, lily of the valley, Solomon’s Seal, dame’s rocket, lilac, crocus, white bleeding heart, sweet woodruff, clematis.
For summer, lilies, daisies, white delphiniums, roses, yarrow, garden phlox, valerian, liatris, white bell flowers, hollyhocks, carnations, veronicas, catmints and hostas.
For fall, wind anemones, snakeroot, garden mums, white turtlehead and obedient plant.
For winter, snowberry, redosier dogwood, mistletoe and snowdrops.
These will ensure continuous bloom at least from spring to fall, and can be supplemented by a host of low maintenance annuals like petunias, impatiens, sweet alyssum, pansies, begonias, verbenas, Persian buttercups, sweet peas, angelonias, nicotianas, love-in-a-mist, larkspur, stock, cosmos, candituft, salvias, moss roses, spider flowers, snapdragons, which will fill the lulls between the perennial flowers with reliable all season bloom.