Shades of White for Winter, Spring and Summer

  • Post published:03/04/2015
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View from the Bedroom Window
View from the Bedroom Window March 4, 2015

There are many shades of white in this world. Snow white is what I have been looking at for three frigid months now, but I dream of shades of white for spring and summer.

Snowdrops
Snowdrops

First come the snowdrops – as white as snow. A very welcome white.

Rhododendron 'Boule de neige'
Rhodendron ‘Boule de Neige’

Rhododendrons bloom towards the end of May, but ‘Boule de Neige’  (Snowball) has a memory of the white winter. Somehow this pristine white seems prettier than the snow.

Casa Blanca lilies
Casa Blanca lilies

High summer and the lilies are blooming. Blanca, blanca, blanca. White, white, white.

Mme Plantier rose
Mme Plantier rose

But perhaps my favorite whites are rose whites – Madame Plantier, rosa semi-plena, and Mount Blanc,

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  1. Rose

    I have a similar view out my bedroom window, Pat:) I am ready for some lovely white, too, that isn’t snow!

  2. Pat

    Rose – It has got to end sometime. Doesn’t it?

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