It’s time for my weekly garden tour. I noticed a lot of white in my garden and decided to focus on the different types of white flowers. I realized eventually and unintentionally I like to add white to offset all the high colors in my garden. I have a lot of color – reds, oranges and purples mostly and the white adds a cooling touch to all that color.
The White Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia nicolai) is making another appearance as it is adding on layers of color as it continues opening.
The native salvia (Salvia coccinea) is showing off in white.
Another favorite native is Juba Bush (Iresine diffusa). These are lightly scented and make a good cut flower.
Miss Alice Bougainvillea is making a shy return to her former glory. She was knocked back by the cold.
White Geiger (Cordia boisserei) has been flowering for a couple of weeks. This is sometimes called Texas Olive as it is native there and produces odd, olive like fruit. The fruit is edible but oddly gelatinous and best left for wild life. My greyhound will eat it if left to his own devices.
White and pink Shell Ginger (Alpinia zerumbet) are budding and blooming.
That is all from South Florida this week. Gardeners here continue to do rain dances. I read it would take almost 2 feet of rain to break the drought here.
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The Shrub Queen 
I always love your Miss Alice Bougainvillea. Two feet of rain is a lot. We are having a drought here also. I have to get used to rainfall totals as an inch is considered a lot here. Back in Texas, that barely wet the ground. I’ve been watching the wildfires down your way. Hopefully, they will stay away from your part of Florida.
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Thank you. Hoping for rain – but not too much! for all of us.
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It has been raining most of the day here. I’m not sure how much is needed, but I’m sure less than two feet.
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Yay
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Thanks for the tour of your beautiful tropical plants.
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Thank you, Noelle.
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I also do like the white bougainvillea, which is very rare and not often seen around here. So I’m quite happy with my purple one in my greenhouse. The wind dries the soil out a lot here, so watering is necessary. It hasn’t rained in a long time either.
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Hmm, Fred, is your purple Bougainvillea Silhouette? The white was difficult to find here as well. I’m hoping for rain all around!
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No, it’s an unknown variety without a label that I bought at the garden center. Dark purple color.
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Silhouette is the slightly thornless brother of Miss Alice often purple with white markings.
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I have read in a couple of garden design books, including one about the garden of Mien Ruys this past week, that we shouldn’t use white flowers in the garden. I totally disagree! I like them very much.
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Absolutely! whites set everything off, I love them and have no idea who Mien Ruys is but will look them up. My garden would probably freak them out!
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Love your Strelitzia! 🤩
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Ah, white; my favorite color. Miss Alice looks good. Well, it all looks good, of course.
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White flowers are just lovely. The salvia is very pretty, and I also really like the White Geiger, though I’d never seen it before. It somehow reminds me a little of hollyhock.
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Great idea for a theme! I love the white Bougainvillea. And the buds of the Alpinia are beautiful, too.
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Thanks, Beth. It seems white flowers can be controversial?!
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I have never seen a white Bird of Paradise before and I think it is so much prettier than the usual pink and orange ones! Naturally I love the white salvia too – what a great photo of it. 🩷
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