Brighten Your Garden with White Highlights: Shasta Daisies, Sleigh Bells Roses, and Fuchsias

Green-and-gray gardens can feel flat. Strategic white flowers and silver foliage create luminous highlights that transform a landscape—especially in Southern California where these ornamentals thrive.

Shasta Daisies: Modern Classics

Hybridization has reinvented them—double flowers, cleaner whites, heavier production. Propagate by seed or plant. Top varieties:

• Chiffon: white semi-double, gold center
• Marconi: shaggy snow-white, 4-in width
• Esther Reed: pure white, fully double
• Majestic: largest of all

Even a few clumps multiply into masses. Superb cut flowers.

Sleigh Bells Rose: Don't Wait for Bare-Root Season

• Free-flowering (intermittent year-round)
• Needs sun, ventilation, summer water
• Heavy feeder like all roses

Asters for Late Summer/Fall

Nursery transplants available now (some near bloom). Choose younger plants for easier establishment. White varieties across all classes: California Giants, Princess, Super Giants, Early Beauty, Improved Crego, Queen of the Market.

Dusty Miller: The Silver Foliage Star

Centaurea candidissima—grey, leathery leaves; yellow flowers inconspicuous. Grown for foliage sparkle visible blocks away. Perfect for modern-architecture gardens.

Fuchsias: Summer Color Champions

Constant new introductions. Pure whites and white-with-color contrasts (red, pink, violet). Shade-loving but surprisingly sun-tolerant. Love humidity—mist with cold water regularly.

White and silver: the garden's highlighter pens.