The main colour of flower that we haven't looked at in this sequence is white. So here are a few white flowers.
The one above is a pansy (don't know which one) hat has been in the pots by the front door for three years. Pansies are often sold as annuals but almost all are perennials. I don't kknow if they are sold as annual for reasons of aesthetics (because they look very straggly and strung out) or for economics (so that growers can sell pansies e very year.)
I'm not a huge fan of pansies and prefer violas. There isn't a distinct line between them - it's related to the size of the flower - you can defnitely tell this is a pansy.
But let's not digress too far. White flowers - white flowers seem much more common in the wild than they are in the garden. I think that only in the lilies is white a desired colour,, oh, and roses too, and maybe even carnations, and orchids... and chrysanthemums... okay I take that last observation back - the white flowers are often grown as cut flowers to symbolise purity and often death too - the white lilies on the chest.
Talking of which - white carnation. this is from the hanging basket carnations. There is a distinct pinkness to this flower though.
White flowers, in the wild - many small wild flowers are white... but let's just look at the piccies - not sure what the first one is but then we have the foxgloves that we've seen before and at the bottom are the white dicentras which are new for this year.
