When I inherited my community garden plot, I was a bit overwhelmed as it was overflowing with all sorts of plants growing in nearly every spot of soil, weeds, wildflowers and everything else all mixed up together. My husband's suggestion was to get a minirototiller to get rid of everything all at once and start all over. I couldn't bring myself to do that. I later learned the previous gardener was on a quest to grow only white flowers in her plot. During a random googling session, I found there is actually a lovely name for such gardens: a moon garden. This white yarrow I have kept since I like the leafy fronds and the white flowers that shoot out over the leaves. In the background, my thornless boysenberry vines hang, now sporting blooms.
Another legacy plant from the previous gardener, these white hollyhocks probably were a key element of her moon garden. In the past, I had many more of these, and on full moon nights, these hollyhocks stood tall, luminously glowing in the dark. I could spot my garden from afar.
I inherited this white Calla lily from the previous community gardener, who seemed to have amassed an interesting collection of white flowers during her regime. While googling, I came across the term 'moon garden', describing a garden filled with only white flowers. In my hands, this plot is no longer a moon garden since I am rather fond of pink flowers.
I inherited these white California poppies from the previous gardener, who left a legacy of all sorts of other white flowers in this plot. Each year, I collect the seed pods, leave them wrapped in my car in newspaper for a few weeks until I hear them exploding open, and then gather up the seeds to plant for the next year. It makes for a messy car but I do like saving seeds. Family: Papaveraceae
