10 Spring Plants and Flowers For Your Garden
Liven up your flower boxes this spring with 10 of these beautiful early blooming flowers found on Better Homes and Gardens website.
1. Pansy
Pansies prove to be the perfect spring flower because they love the shade, and you can relish in the variety in bloom color for months to come.
Growing conditions: Sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 10 inches tall and 12 inches wide
2. Snowdrop Anemone
Snowdrop Anemone will flourish even in a slightly shaded spring garden. The plant may even put on a second bloom once the cooler temperatures of the fall season come.
Growing conditions: Full sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide
3. Redbud
Beginning in march, this tree will bring your garden or yard a wild display of pink beginning in March and lasting throughout the summer season.
Growing conditions: Sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 30 feet tall and wide
4. Lilac
This cottage-garden favorite’s sweet spring fragrance will fill your garden with unprecedented beauty, as it comes in all shapes and sizes. Also, the lilac usually blooms on old wood, so you might want to hold off on pruning until after the flowering is finished.
Growing conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 20 feet tall and wide
5. ‘Acoma’ Iris
This flower comes in all colors, making them a perfect colorful addition to your springtime.
Growing conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 34 inches tall and 12 inches wide
6. Grape Hyacinth
This flower resembles bundles of grapes and make one of the most beautiful and best flowers to add to your garden.
Growing conditions: Full sun or part shade and well-drained soil
Size: To 8 inches tall and 6 inches wide
7. 'Harmony' Iris
Dwarf wild iris pops with deep, wild purple or blue is a welcome contrast to many of spring's pastel flowers.
Growing conditions: Full sun and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 6 inches tall and wide
8. Daffodil
This spring flower has a range of shapes and sizes, and honestly, what is spring without Daffodils?
Growing conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 1 foot tall and wide
9. Tulip
The Tulip brings about native cheerfulness and beauty, making itself fit in any garden setting.
Growing conditions: Full sun and well-drained soil
Size: To 2 feet tall and 1 foot wide
10. Puschkinia
Inside the blooms of snowdrift are striped flowers that offer surprising color variation. Make your garden one of a kind with these beauties.
Growing conditions: Sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil
Size: To 8 inches tall and 6 inches wide
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