Add poetry to sundown and evening outdoor cocktails and dinners by including white, pale lilac and pale blue flowers throughout your garden.

WSJ: How to Create an Open-Air Dining Room

Not so far from Great Dixter, at Sissinghurst Castle, lay the epitome of English taste in Vita Sackville-West's White Garden, surrounded by equally soothing beddings in blue, lilac and mauve.

ECONOMIST: Christopher Lloyd