Amonochromatic garden is agarden in which a single color is highlighted.
Such a garden is planted so that it overwhelms the observer with a single color. While this may seem a rather bland approach at first, such gardens were made popular by the work of famous garden designers such asGertrude Jekyll andVita Sackville-West. Sackville-West, for example, created what may have been one of the most famous single-color gardens, the White Gardenroom of theSissinghurst Castle Garden.[1][2]
Many single-color gardens use flowers of different shades, such as light yellow and deep gold, or a range that includes dark burgundy, bright scarlet, and also pink for a red garden.[3][4] (A similar idea usesanalogous colors, such as purple, red, and orange, rather than a single color.[5]) Plants with colored leaves, such as silver leaves or plants withvariegated foliage for a white garden, might also be included.[4]
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The color for a monochromatic garden may be chosen for any reason, including to fit a small garden, as part of a clean, contemporary design, or to highlight afavorite color.[6][4] Another possibility is an all-green garden, which may feel peaceful or harmonious.[1] A monochromaticedible garden is possible, but more challenging to design than a flower garden in any color except green.[7] Yellow variegated leaves can be difficult to include in a multi-colored garden, but they blend easily into an all-yellow garden, such as all-yellow Gold Border garden atWave Hill in New York.[8]
Beyond the choice of color, single-color gardens are designed with a variety of types and sizes of flowers as well as plants of different heights, shapes and textures.[3][4] Other elements of the garden, such as pathways, walls, and furniture, may match or contrast with the chosen color.[4]
A white garden is a featuregarden composed of plants that produce whiteflowers and spathes as well as plants with a white or silvery cast to their foliage. The white garden is a variant of the color garden. The most essential feature of the white garden is its unity of color.
The white garden is an informal gardening style that is similar in design to the English cottage garden. The open and informal design creates associations with romance, peace, and elegance. The white flowers are not usually placed in clusters, but spread throughout the garden's green areas, creating a natural look and feel. The mildly dense placement of white flowers creates a luminescent sight that is especially powerful in thetwilight. Because of this effect, they are sometimes calledmoon gardens.[9]
The white flowers in a white garden are not necessarily pure white; they may have hints of other colors, such as gray, blue, pink, yellow, or green.[2] The White Garden at Sissinghurst, for example, contains white, grey and silver.[10]
Flowers used in white gardens may include:
The color white, and white flowers in particular, carry a vast amount ofsymbolism.
In parts of the US in 1915, single-color flower gardens featuring yellow flowers were used as a symbol of support forwomen's right to vote.[11]
Probably the most famous single-color garden is Vita Sackville-West's white garden at Sissinghurst in England.
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