June is the traditional month for brides and on the Vineyard nature’s color palette is right in tune: Fields, woodlands and roadsides are dotted with white flowers of every description. Framed by ancient stone walls and modern split rail fences, great drifts of daisies cascade down hillsides and across horse pastures, as if they were brushed into the landscape by some French impressionist. Creamy white viburnum has burst into bloom in the many wild places of the Island. Showy Kousa dogwood, which thrives here, decorates the formal yards of Edgartown and weaves itself into the tree canopy across North Road in West Tisbury and Chilmark. Underfoot on woodland walks, tiny white flowers promise wild strawberries in the weeks to come. Mulitflora rose — considered an invasive — is an elegant nuisance in thickets around swampy places and moist woodlands. And that gorgeous blooming bush at Polly Hill when we drive by? The formal name is persicaria polymorpha, but it’s known as fleece flower.

Soon red, blue and yellow will be added to the color scheme as the Fourth of July draws near — geraniums and petunias in window boxes, cornflowers, coreopsis, day lilies and black-eyed Susans in the garden. But for now, the many white flowers in their lush green setting are the most pleasant distraction of the month.