Your Spring Flower Garden

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

It is a great art to ensure that your garden blooms and smells almost all year round. Let's get acquainted with what plants should be in the flower beds, so that with the arrival of the first spring heat, your suburban area will be buried in exuberant flowering

Snowdrops or snowdrops?

Siberian woods are the first to peep out from under the snow. They are often confused with snowdrops, especially when plants with a white corolla are found. The trees also have purple and pink petals. But most of them are blue. Therefore, they received the name "blue snowdrop" among the people. This plant does have another name, but it is scilla. They start planting the bulbs in the fall. Their low curtains look very gentle along the borders of garden paths. After the end of the flowering period, the plants form capsules and reproduce by self-seeding. A real snowdrop also hides under the name galanthus.

Another flower that is confused with spines is the liverwort. They have the same flowering periods and flowers of a similar blue hue. But the scrub has an elongated long leaf plate and the rim looks like a bell. And in the liverwort, the leaf is wide, the bud opens wide, revealing the stamens.

Also, do not confuse woodlands with chionodox. They have similar leaves, they are close relatives, but the plants are different. Chionodox also delight flower growers with early tender buds.

Add colors to your flower garden

Plants such as crocuses help to decorate your flower beds in early spring with bright colors. Although they are not high, they have rather large flowers relative to their size. The petals are white, yellow, orange, pink, blue, blue, purple. There are varieties with beautiful bicolor striped petals. The peculiarity of crocuses is that they can decorate your garden with their flowering not only in early spring, but also in autumn.

Another delicate flower that can't wait to expose its petals to the first warm rays of the sun is a garden primrose. No wonder the second name of the plant is primrose. White, lilac, pink, carmine, orange, lilac, blue, burgundy, violet - nature spared no colors, creating primrose flower petals. Primroses can decorate flower beds from April to June.

Imperial splendor in your flower beds

Following the kids, medium-sized flowers take the baton. First of all, it is a tall primrose and a fine-toothed primrose. Unlike their relatives, which form a low curtain, densely covered with bright blooms, these varieties produce a higher flower arrow, topped with a cap of a globular inflorescence.

How not to mention the luxurious tulips. No wonder this flower was chosen as a symbol of the Ottoman dynasty. And in order to highlight the greatness and power of beauty of these perennials, the flowerbed with them should be bordered with other, more delicate spring flowers. Muscari or mouse hyacinth are perfect for this role. The combination of red tulip petals and blue muscari inflorescences looks absolutely amazing.

Kingdom of sun bunnies

When daffodils bloom their buds against the background of lush greenery, the flowerbed becomes as if dotted with bright sunny bunnies. Planting daffodil bulbs should be carried out closer, so that the "sunny" effect is brighter.

Well, for those who do not want to limit themselves to sunbeams, but want to grow a whole sun in the garden, we can advise you to plant forsythia.

This shrub has not yet managed to release a single green leaf, but has already wrapped itself in a dense blanket of bright yellow flowering. For those who are fond of the art of topiary, it will not be difficult to turn the dense, long branches of the shrub into a neat sphere.