Get the Most of spring by planting the Best Spring Flowering Garden Plants
Friday, November 12, 2010 7:46For a gardener, spring is the best season of the year for gardening plants after a long cold, dark winter the days. So if you want to have plants growing, you should make the most of spring. But, make sure you choose the best spring flowering garden plants which are easy to grow and propagate.
Surely, Iris is the best choice for everyone’s garden. They are so diverse in flower forms and colors that you can find plenty to compliment all your garden designs. Iris are majestic gardening plants and planted in large groups of the same species and color rival all plants for the best positions in your garden. They are perfect border and bedding plants and mix well with other plants. Iris can be grown in patio tubs and pots, window boxes and troughs and will brighten up any spring day. There flowers are delicate with three inner and three outer petals which make an intriguing and unusual form. Flower colors are blue, yellow, lilac, white, all in different shades and many are multicolored or mottled, some are scented.
Other great plants for growing in front of other border and bedding plants are Muscari. Their attractive blue flower spikes are set against their greenish-grey lance shape semi-erect leaves. They are well suited to window boxes and troughs when planted in large groups on their own. But grown around the edge of patio pots and tubs filled with contrasting taller plants in the middle they really come into their own, creating a soft edge to the pots and a soft transition to the taller plants.
If you don’t want to do much effort, try to plant Cyclamen since they self seed profusely. Cyclamen are perfect for rock gardens or under trees and shrubs where they create an almost wildflower setting. Their petalled flowers are red, white, pink or purple and some are scented. Grow them in patio pots and tubs, window boxes or troughs and you will have eye-catching displays right through spring. Even their leaves are attractive, light or mid-green with silvery-grey mottled or marbled markings.