The best white-flowering shrubs to plant now for fluffy, cloud-like blooms – 4 favourites that produce a gorgeous fragrance every year

White flowering buddleia shrub.

For timeless white blooms that come back every year, it’s worth planting a few of the best white-flowering shrubs this month.

If combining this year’s garden trends and Pantone’s Colour of the Year, ‘Cloud Dancer’, sounds good to you, shrubs are a brilliant way to go about it. So many varieties produce stunning clouds of white blooms, delivering a sense of calm to pots, beds and borders.