Creating a Serene Winter Wonderland with our ‘Winter Whites’ recipe!

Embrace the serene beauty of the season with our enchanting ‘Winter Whites’ container garden recipe. This composition features a harmonious blend of thrillers like the elegant Morning Glow Camellia and the striking Blue Flax Lily. The fillers, including Dusty Miller and Flowering Kale, add texture and depth to this winter wonderland. Watch as the graceful Licorice plant and the delicate White Vista Supertunias spill over the edges, creating a cascading, snow-like effect. Alyssum Snow Princess provides the finishing touch with its delicate blooms, making our ‘Winter Whites’ combo the perfect addition to your winter garden oasis.

1. Morning Glow Camellia Japonica dazzles with abundant, large, formal double flowers. Its pristine white petals, slightly cupped, create a stunning display from mid-winter through spring.
2. Variegated Flax Lily brightens the landscape with its bold, creamy stripes on broad strap leaves. This strap leaf accent plant can be used as a single specimen plant or in more extensive mass plantings.
3. Dusty Miller, a versatile foliage plant, enhances sunny gardens, containers, and borders. Its silvery leaves contrast beautifully with darker flowers and complement shades of pink, magenta, and violet blooms.
4. Supertunia Vista Snowdrift, a Proven Winners petunia hybrid, boasts year-round bright white blooms. Growing up to 24 inches tall with a 2-3 feet spread, it’s a favorite of butterflies and hummingbirds.
5. Alyssum Snow Princess is a compact, low-growing annual plant with a rounded, spreading shape. It continuously produces small, white, aromatic flowers throughout the season. This robust plant flourishes in varying temperatures and is ideal for hanging baskets due to its prolific and sweet-smelling blossoms.
6. Flowering Kale, known for its vibrant ruffled foliage in shades of pink, purple, and red, is a striking yet simple-to-cultivate choice for pots and garden plots. They flourish in cooler climates and remain resilient against mild frost, maintaining their beauty in winter in warmer regions.
7. Licorice Plant, a perennial evergreen in frost-free areas, features trailing stems with soft, round, silver-grey velvety leaves. It’s heat and drought-resistant and perfect for hanging baskets, garden beds, borders, and window boxes.

Try this cool-weather colorful lineup in your window boxes and trough planters.

This box of blooms is a symphony of cool-weather flowers arranged to captivate and charm. In this design, we pair the towering elegance of snapdragons as the ‘thriller’, with the vibrant and versatile nemesia as the ‘filler’, and the cascading beauty of petunias to ‘spill’ over the edges. The centerpiece of this arrangement is the striking flowering kale, adding a unique and bold touch. Perfectly suited for Jacksonville’s climate, these plants promise to maintain their allure throughout the season, seamlessly transitioning into the early summer. This arrangement is not just a feast for the eyes and nose but a testament to the enduring beauty of cool-weather florals.

1. Flowering Kale, known for its vibrant ruffled foliage in shades of pink, purple, and red, is a striking yet simple-to-cultivate choice for pots and garden plots. They flourish in cooler climates and remain resilient against mild frost, maintaining their beauty in winter in warmer regions.
2. Nemesia offers a spectrum of colors for vibrant cool-season gardens. Ideal for adding a subtle, pleasant scent, position these plants near seating areas to enhance the sensory experience. It can last through summer with partial shade.
3. Snapdragon’s vertical presence and palette of dazzling colors make for perfect thrillers in containers and flower beds alike. Plant them now to enjoy them from winter into the early summer!
4. Cascadias™ Indian Summer Petunias boasts a medley of warm hues like yellow, orange, pink, and terra cotta in softly ruffled, velvety flowers. These resilient petunias are perfect for trailing from containers or as vibrant groundcovers, attracting hummingbirds and butterflies with their sweet nectar.