Hi southshoregardener! First thank you for the kind words. Your garden is going to be just beautiful. I absolutely love your location, and the view from the patio..outstanding. My first thought might be: Does the path of the moon shine in that area? I know that my white garden in under the canopy of high trees and the moonlight doesn't hit it directly. That is ok, just a different effect. No matter where you plant yours, it will be lovely by day and magical by evening..the flowers hover at dusk. I really like your choices for plants..nice to see you've included a variety of types and bloom time..excellent. I think you are going to be happy with your choices. I was going to suggest a few things, but I see you've already included them. I recently added hosta to mine. I added Loyalist, which is white with deep green edging, or green edged with a white center...depending on how you look at it...ha ha ha. I wanted to add an Aphrodite to it...I love the flowers and the scent, but decided to keep Aphrodite in another garden, simpley because the foliage is big, beautiful and GREEN. I wanted more white in there. As it is, I will be removing the bayberry shrubs I have in mine. I love the scent and the berries, but, it is just too green. I could suggest other bulbs, or perennials, but in reality it is what you like, and it looks like you have some wonderful plants, and know what you like. I think it is good to include shrubs, bulbs, perennials annuals and vines. I am not much into the garden art...but I do have a bird bath that is white. As far as design, I didn't follow any plan, and change things that don't work out the way I like. Mostly taller in back of shorter..since my garden is an island, I try for taller around the three 'points' as anchors, and tall in the middle. I grow vines up through the shrubs like clematis and moonflowers. My garden has both full sun and a lot of shade too, so I am lucky I can grow many things, as you will see you can too. I try to put darker foliage near lighter and behind the white blooms, I try to use different leaf types for contrast. I really don't have much advice, other than watch which like sun and shade, plant lower ones in front of taller ones, and watch the moisture requirements of each type when you plant it. I see you have a white coreopsis listed....very nice, I learned something..I didn't even know one existed. I use calgary tulips because they last a long time, and have large flowers that are substantial. They are not perennial here for me. I added camassia, which you might like. I have both purple and white. ( Did I mention that I add a splash of red and purple, just for some daytime interest? Not much though. I love the way purple and red look together with white. They all play off of each other.) May I reccomend some sort of daisy, or the double ones are nice too. Phlox Carolina Miss Lingard lasts a long time as well as phlox David. Some white Asiatics in a group will put on a nice show that lasts a long time too. I am trying to think of the whites that last a while and show up nicely. I agree with clethra Hummingbird...it likes moisture...and what a nice scent for the late summer garden, like honey. Anemone Honorine Jobert also puts on a nice show too in the late summer, but really you have some wonderful selections and I am sure you will add your favorites. I like your choice of annuals...petunias, portulaca and cosmos would be my only other suggestions for annuals..maybe white profusion zinnias..they just bloom and bloom. I never cared much for dusty miller, until I had seen it in a white garden and the silvery foliage really added a nice touch to it, now I wouldn't be without it. It came back for me last year, which was unexpected but nice. There are so so many different white flowers you can add, to sit and list them all would be boring for you and me..I'm sure you'll find your favorites along the way. I have tree peonies and herbacious peonies..but the foliage will be green most of the year, for the short bloom period..it all depends on what you like. Somewhere on one of these posts I have some of the flowers I have in mine posted..I have discovered that I missed some for the list..but like I said..you have a wonderful selection and I think you are going to be quite happy with yours. Enjoy..JoAnn

SandySlopes, yours are beauties! I love them on the slope there. I have 'Ceylon' as well. I planted them in 2005 and they are still going strong. I've lifted and divided them a couple of times to increase them. I think I have enough now, so I only lift when they stop blooming well. I also have Puschkinia and Scilla. I only added Pushkinia a couple of years ago and I'm waiting for that to spread. Rouge I love your Anemone, very pretty! I always mean to add that it but I don't. I ordered a named variety once and it died out the first winter. But apparently yours is hardy. What kind of soil and sun exposure do they have?

Glorious, floraluk2! I love to see the Cowslips in a natural setting. The Erythroniums are native here on VI, the native one is white and about a week earlier to flower. 'Pagoda' is the cultivated variety. I salvaged mine from an old farmstead that was being converted into a shopping mall. Fortunately I knew what they were and went in with a friend. We dug up every erythronium that could be spotted. They've taken off in both our yards, so I feel like a good deed has been done there. Rosaprumula, is my pink/lilac primula, Primula vulgaris 'sibthorpii'? Is that how it would be presented? I agree completely with you about the dry and infertile soil suiting this variety. That's what I have, and as you can see, they just do wonderfully! I also grow them in pots. To showcase how tough this variety is - gave a few clumps to a neighbour up the road. He is only here part time, and part time at his other home in Victoria. So the garden here doesn't get watered much, if at all. Added to this, the man proceeded to replace the siding on his home, in the process of which dumped wood, shingles, plastic and other construction debris all over the spot where the primroses were planted. Covered the area completely for months. I thought the plants were destroyed and was quite annoyed with him. Imagine my amazement this spring, with all the building debris removed, to see patches of lavender/pink flowering merrily among blue grape hyacinths. Tough, indeed. As to the oxslips, I've never seen any for sale here. They look lovely! As to cowslips spreading more easily than myosotis, I wish! Mind you the common Forget-me-not doesn't do well in my yard either, but there is a minature boring version that is a weed. However I have discovered MULCH! which has stopped all those scruffy weeds in their tracks, am happy to report.

Love the early blooms! I see some of you are in a warmer zone. I have never grown Lathyrus, in the pea family? Does it add fertility to the soil? Haven’t grown a Corydalis either, and keep saying I need to add one. But I have native Wood Poppy that is similar and I love that too. So pretty and looks happy. Love the Iris - I moved some into more sun last year and I’m hoping they will bloom this year. Love the rose on the Arbor. Such pretty foxgloves - are they Foxy? I keep meaning to try crimson clover for a cover crop. LOVE that morning glory!! I hope you have a nice long season of bloom. Snapdragons? Do they reseed? Woodland phlox, I love but haven’t been able to establish it. I tried a couple of times, but it just disappears.