The White Connection - Update

These are my White Collection plants planted in the pot. They have been doing very well in a dense cramped area and I feeling good about it. Occasionally one plant or the other become leggy and unattractive, I managed to trim and replant some but for the zigzag plant I'm not sure whether to do it or not.

If you notice(the zigzag plant) , the lower leaves are smaller than the top ones. For now, they look authentic in a way, you cannot expect a perfect garden. I like to have some imperfection just here & there. For me - that means its being realistic.

My garden is slowly evolving to a white garden, or I would consider its following the season of winter (or a pseudo-winter kind of way) Somehow I find that colours makes an impact in my small space garden, or rather my container garden.

Talking about colours - I realise then in gardening green seemed to be a monochrome colour to me.

Something like in the scale :-
(0 = common, 10 = difficult)

0 = Green (ferns & fragrant plant foliage)
1 = White (as shown in these pictures, Bleeding Hearts)
2 = Brown (Begonias, Flame violets)
3 = Red (Joyweed, Coleus)
4 = Yellow (Hanii, Coleus)
5 = Pink (Coleus, Moss Rose, Periwinkle)
6 = Orange (Blackberry lily)
7 = Grey (Red Flame Ivy)
8 = Violet (rare - wishbone flower)
9 = Blue (rare - verbena, orchid)
10 = Black (none)

I'm hoping that I get to "paint" all these colours in my garden in a long term basis. In a way, these colours stay in a long term basis (especially foliage colours) rather than one time bloom and gone and to wait for months & years for these colours.

Thank God for Periwinkle, Bleeding Heart Vine, Blackberry Lily & Flame Violets for their constant continuous blooms that add colour to my garden, if not - then its the varigated coloured foliage that makes up for that difference.

Again, it may sound that I'm becoming obsessive with these colours and all, somehow satisfaction & contentment comes after putting a lot of thought & work.

Do share your thoughts on colours in the garden.
About these colour factors and how you feel about them.
When my garden look good, I feel good too.

I'm sure each gardener have a feel of their own,
would love to hear your thoughts on the matter,
whether it really matters to you have a coloured garden?

Planter Box updates

My planter box had done well, especially coleus where I had placed 4 different types of it in it.
They look so much better from the day I had started. These coleus seemed to grow tall and there is a landscape now.
(click on garden update "label" for this progress)

But the low height plants don't to do well and I may have to transfer them, probably will do it in these few days. Especially my pepperomia (seemed like going MIA)

I had removed the curly leafed begonia and gave it away to my friend as a gift. Hope its doing fine as its quite hardy actually.

the wax begonia had started flowering - nice.

False Philodendron - Peperomia Scandens

What I like about this peperomia is that it creates a nice white border on its shiny leaves. Somehow gives that artificial plant look. I really cannot remember what happen to this plant (need to check and see if this plant still exist in my garden)

I regret now after looking at this pictures. I should have kept them just the way they are. Now both of this peperomia and the hanging vine are no longer at the optimum stage like what they look like in these pictures.

Hmm... see if I can recreate this again. Ohh.. wait, I'm still persuing the coloured garden which is still in my mind.. (which one, which one.. shall I choose...???)