Looking for a flowering hedge with white flowers??

I live in florida, which is a zone 8, I believe. I wanted to do a white flowering hedge in the front of my house and then add bright punches of color to the front of the hedges with some flowers. Any ideas??

Looking for a flowering hedge with white flowers??
Privet also has a tiny white flower and grows quickly. Hibiscus makes a nice hedge and there are varieties from white through red shades. Azalaea can make nice hedges but doesn't continually bloom.
Reply:this makes me think of bridal spirea...
Reply:don't know if mock orange will grow there or not, but when I was growing up the neighbors had a mock orange hedge around the back yard. it had white flowers that smelled like heaven!
Reply:Everything that has been mentioned is great, it just depends on the height you want the hedge to get. And some of the plants don't flower all year. Encore azaleas flower for most of the year but a good rain usually distories the flowers, making a brown mess. Hydrangas need a lot of shade and not hot afternoon sun. Gardenias come in many varities. The regular gardenia gets six foot and the daisy only three. The daisy is my favorite because it keeps it blooms longer and is hardier than the regular. It is beautiful all summer and smells as pretty as it looks. I'm not sure but you might want to consider butterfly bushes too. They get huge, come in white, but also many other colors. They attract butterflies which is always a plus. I would have to check but I believe they might keep their leave all year in Florida.





For color full sun I suggest periwinkle or vinca (same flower). Lots of different color, loves the sun and doesn't require lots of water. Even here in Tennessee it comes back each year though it is listed as an annual. If you have shade consider impatiens, they are very pretty and come in lots of colors and sizes. Also they can be pinched back when they become leggy, and will bush out more. They do not like a lot of sun and will wilt if they don't get enough water.
Reply:gardenias would be nice if you lived in california, but since you dont a orleander white would be nice. WARNING the whole plant is toxis and may cause a rash when handleing
Reply:If the hedge is partial shade, you can go with azeala or a white hibiscus would do well in FL or maybe camelia? I might do hibiscus and camelia that way you get more flowering time. White lilac, but they tend to really get big, although mine aren't. Privet is supposed to flower, but mine doesn't. I think I'll rip it out.


Here's some web sites I enjoy.





www.parkseeds.com


www.waysidegardens.com


www.americanmeadows.com (mostly bulbs)


www.brecks.com





I love american meadows for their bulbs. You might plant some dwarf bearded iris in front of your white hedge, they come in all sorts of colors, gladiolas, although tall would really be nice there, different collors or maybe a white with red theme so you can plant a ground cover of blue in the summer like lobelia or something. If you don't like red white and blue every single summer for the 4th of july, there are many pretty colors. I like bulbs because you can plant them and just fertalize during growing and blooming and forget them! They just do their thing and then I plant annuals like marigolds, pansies, petunias and others to bring on the color! Depending on how much sun your front of the house gets, you have a lot of options. Go to the websites and browse through their different catagories and see what you like. They list the zone and you can grow almost anything in zone 8. OH! you might also put asiatic or oriental lillies in front of the hedge too! I have one thin but long planter that I TOTALLY redid last summer. The back half is shade and next to the garage and the front half is full sun. In back I planted hostas, astilbe and heleborus and will plant others. The heleborus won't do well in Florida, the seem to like to freeze and bloom in winter. Weird plants, but they are perfect for me! The other two bloom in spring and summer in the shade. In the sunny part out front I planted a long row of reblooming and bearded double iris. Then gladiolis will go in this spring. Then I have a mulittude of different tulips and daffodils, a frutilaria and then my asiatic and oriental lillies. in front of that I will have grape hiacynths, which are short and purple. So this is what is going to happen. In the spring, I'll have the daffodils come up and bloom with the hiacynth and then the bearded iris will bloom right after the tulips which are about the same time as the daffodils. There will be some overlap. Then in the late spring early summer I have the lillies to grace the garden and then the galdiolas in the summer and in the fall I will have some of the reblooming bearded iris and some autumn blooming crocus. Then it snows and only the heleborus I have on the side, the back and in the future front will bloom. Don't plant tulips in florida, they need a cooling off period and you don't get that cool there, lucky you! So I'm going to have rotating flowers interpersed with some annuals that I will plant. I'm going to try a gound cover of sweet allysium and lobelia I think.


Oh! The hydrangea is a white flowering hedge too, but it can be big. look at this one;


http://www.parkseed.com/webapp/wcs/store... I think you'll like this!


Look at the web sites I gave you to get some ideas and you can google "shrubs" or "hedges" and get a lot more sites to look at. Of course, you can order online too! Check out some day lillies and flowering ground cover and I think you'll come up with the perfect garden. It'll be a lot of work at first, but SO worth it when all you have to do is prune, water, fertalize and ENJOY! Good Luck! I'm so excited now for you!


P.S. also make sure you choose plants that like the same soil PH. Some like a more acid soil, as do the flowering plants and some like less. Some soil amendments and fertalizer will help you keep it how you need it.
Reply:Gardenias have white blooms and smell great! Also, consider azaleas, they come in white, red, pink and orange. An idea for flowers would be Gerber daisies, they come in the prettiest colors! Yellow, deep red and a coral color, look them up, they're gorgeous.



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