Flowers: A Monthly Calendar by Colour - April
This section will assist you in choosing flower colour for your garden, month by month, throughout the year. It will allow you to create a colour for a planted feature that will continue its themed display throughout each of the four seasons. This month, the monthly calendar will focus on flowers blooming in April and other Spring shrubs. Try creating a White garden, a Blue garden or even a Pink garden. Mix White and Yellow plants for a cottage garden look or Orange and Blue for a contemporary and contrasting display.
White/Cream
Trees
AMELANCHIER. Clouds of starry flowers.
PRUNUS avium. ‘Gean’. Single, cup-shaped white flowers.
-‘Plena’. ‘Double Gean’. Fully double, very long lasting white flowers.
-‘SHIROTAE’ (KOJIMA). Single or semi-double large snow white flowers.
-‘TAIHAKU’. Huge single snow white blossoms.
-‘UKON’. Single or semi-double flowers; ivory buff with greenish tinge.
-‘UMENIKO’. Single white flowers with unfolding leaves.
PYRUS CALLERYANA ‘CHANTICLEER’. Clouds of single, pure white flowers.
-COMMUNIS ‘BEECH HILL’. Foams with “Pear” blossom.
-NIVALIS. ‘SNOW PEAR’. Single, white flowers.
-SALICIFOLIA ‘PENDULA’. Dense corymbs of white flowers.
SALIX CAPREA ‘KILMARNOCK’. “Weeping Pussy Willow”. Silvery catkins with golden anthers.
Shrubs
AMELANCHIER. Clouds of starry white flowers.
CAMELLIA JAPONICA FORMS E. Flower February/early May.
CHAENOMELES SPECIOSA ‘NIVALIS’. Pure white flowers on erect shoots.
-‘WINTER SNOW’. Pure white double flowers, bright green early foliage.
ERICA ARBOREA ALPINE E. 1.2m+. Scented white flowers.
MAGNOLIA SOULANGIANA. “Tulip” flowers, white within, purple tinged without.
-‘ALBA SUPERBA’. Pure white, very fragrant, waxy flowers.
-STELLATA ‘ROYAL STAR’. Semi-double, scented white flowers. Late March/April.
OSMANTHUS x BURKWOODII E. Small, tubular fragrant white flowers.
-DELAVAYI E. Masses of small tubular sweetly scented flowers.
PIERIS FORMS E. Creamy-white “Lily-of-the-Valley”-like flowers.
PRUNUS x CISTENA ‘CRIMSON DWARF’. White flowers before the leaves open.
-LAUROCERASUS AND FORMS E. White flowers in spikes.
RHODODENDRON PTARMIGAN. Masses of white flowers. April/May.
-‘SNOW LADY’. Lovely white flowers. March/April.
RIBES SANGUINEUM ‘WHITE ICICLE’. Pendulous white flowers in March and April.
SALIX CAPREA. “Goat Willow” or “Pussy Willow”.
-HASTATA ‘WEHRHAHNII’. Silvery white catkins like icicles.
SKIMMIA JAPONICA ‘FRAGRANS’ E. Dense panicles of scented, white flowers.
SPIRAEA x ARGUTA. “The Bridal Wreath”. Dainty white flowers.
-X CINEREA ‘GREFSHEIM’. Masses of small white flower clusters.
-THUNBERGII. White star-like flowers on arching sprays.
VIBURNUM BURKWOODII E. Pink buds, fragrant white corymbs 10cm across.
-‘ANNE RUSSELL’. Sweetly scented white, rounded flowers.
-CARLESII. Sweetly scented, pink budded white flowers.
-‘ESKIMO’. Cream buds opening to pure white fragrant bunches of flower.
-X JUDDII. Exquisitely scented; pale pink buds then white flowers.
-TINUS. Pink buds all winter opening to white flowers.
Climbers