Peter Dowdall: White flowers add a cool, clean and calm look

Whether you're a gardening beginner or expert, Irish Examiner columnist Peter Dowdall has the answer to your questions

Using white such as this white antirrhinum brings a calming and restful tone to the garden. Picture: iStock

Bedding plants are frowned upon by many “serious” gardeners but not I, which must make me a frivolous gardener. You see I love colour and nothing can bring colour to the garden like summer bedding flowers.

I don’t use them in the traditional way, made popular during Victorian times, that is in dedicated and often perfectly symmetrical and formal planting schemes.