2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Spring primroses in a flowerbed are among the first to meet gardeners, charging them with positive emotions and a sunny mood. But what is the best way to arrange a spring flower bed? What nuances should you not miss?
If you are one of those gardeners who begin to test the suitability of the soil for planting on the very first warm day of spring, then you are seriously engaged in gardening. The sooner you start planting flowers, the more beautiful your garden will be in spring. Therefore, start working from the first sunny days, and the garden will bloom earlier than that of the neighbors. There are basic recommendations that will allow you to decorate the landscape of the site in early spring.
1. Planting bulbs of annual plants
If you plant large bulbs of cold-hardy and hardy annuals - tulips, daffodils and hyacinths - in the fall, your garden will bloom in spring and will be admired by all the neighbors. However, when planting the bulbs, certain conditions must be observed. Large bulbs are buried in the soil to a depth of 12-15 cm. Spring annual flowers need to be transplanted annually.
2. Flowering bushes to decorate the landscape
If you decide to create a blooming corner of nature, then you should tackle the design of the garden, which provides for the care of trees, shrubs and other plants planted on the site. The use of shrubs gives the site a special beauty, and it also helps the growth and development of spring flowers, which prefer shaded rather than sunny places. The blooming of azaleas in the southern garden indicates that spring has come. If the garden is located in a temperate climate, blooming forsythia speaks of the arrival of spring.
Not everyone likes the simple green bushes that grow on the site. Therefore, you can opt for a shrub, on which, after the flowers fall off, bright berries remain, for example, viburnum bushes. Bushes with variegated foliage (Daphne 'Marginata') will look great in the garden.
3. Growing spring flowers in special containers
It is not necessary to use plants planted directly in the ground to decorate a spring garden. The use of containers allows the site to be decorated with earlier colors. Hanging baskets with flowering plants can be carried indoors at night as spring nights are quite chilly. It is also convenient to use large containers on wheels - they can also be placed indoors at night.
There are plants that bloom even in cold spring temperatures. These are snapdragons, petunia and lobelia, and nasturtium can even withstand spring frosts.
4. Planting crocuses
No special skills are required to plant flower bulbs in the soil. The only important point is to maintain the natural development of flower bulbs in lawns. Do not mow the lawn until the crocuses are in bloom to avoid damaging the flower bulbs.
Crocuses are most often grown on lawns, but some gardeners are fond of planting snowdrops and other flowers that bloom in early spring. These flowers need to be planted according to the rules: cut off the top layer of turf with a sharp shovel, and plant the bulbs 10 cm deep in the soil.
5. Growing snowdrops and other cold-resistant flowers
Gardeners, whose plots are located in warm climates, are not so keenly aware of the arrival of spring, but in cold climates, gardeners really want to add at least a little signs of the coming spring to the landscape of their plots, and thus try to "cheat" the winter.
The snowdrops blooming in early spring indicate that winter is about to leave. These small flowers have hardy bulbs that will not die even in freezing conditions. They often bloom right under the snow, in January. Of course, white small flowers are difficult to notice on the white snow - but they will perfectly decorate the bare ground, from which the snow has melted, but on which the first green grass has not yet appeared.
Therefore, for those who want their site to be beautiful and blooming in early spring, winter aconite can be planted. This plant blooms with bright yellow flowers. Other flowers that are not afraid of cold weather will also decorate your garden. There are many plants that bloom in blue, pink and white star-shaped flowers that will satisfy the preferences of any gardener.
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