The warm weather and blue skies of Spring provide the perfect opportunity for adding more color by way of outdoor flowers and plants outside your home. If you have ample garden space or a small patio, planting flowers and plants is easy to do with these helpful tips. Check out some suggestions after the jump.
Gearing Up For Spring
Flower Suggestions For Your Home
Annual Flowers
Annuals last one season and die out. This means these flowers have to be replanted every year. The cool thing about annuals is you can change the look of your garden each year to suit your color fancy. These blooms work well in gardens, and as edgings and borders.
Perennial Flowers
Perennial flowers come back year after year. The advantage here is you never need to replant them. However, short of transplanting them all, you are pretty much locked-in to your original garden design. One tip with perennials is to choose them based on their tolerance of sun or shade. Another tip is choosing perennials in different heights to create more visual impact.
Flower Bulbs
Flower bulbs come back each year, after being dormant over winter months. Most flowers bulbs are pretty strong and reliable so you don't need to really watch them. They just bloom each year. And like perennials, you can plant bulbs according to flowering times for a constant array of color.
Roses
Plant your rose garden so they will get at least six hours of sun per day. Eliminate weeds and get some great circulation and these pretty flowers will keep coming around each year.
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my neighbors planted ronoculus in our front, without really knowing what they were (They were shooting a home depot commercial next door and gave us the plants and sod for free!). They are full grown and blooming.
These happen to be my favorite flowers, too. Can I cut the blooms and will they come back?
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I have flower bulbs in my front yard and i love them. I really don't have to do anything but waiting for them to bloom when the tine comes.
Here are some more inspiring photos if you want to start working on your landscaping just on time for spring:
http://www.houzz.com/photos/landscape
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Sweet Broom are fluffy shrubs with fragrant yellow flowers that bloom throughout the spring. Once they are established the require very little water.
Eriostamen is another dought resistant shrub that grows tall and wide and has spring blossoms that smell like pineapple.
Both these plants are non-invasive for all of you California peops.
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Depending on whether they are the perennial type, cut ranunculus will rebloom in later years. They are often used as cut flowers.
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Here in NH, the ground is still frozen and the snow is not gone yet, although we are down to those ugly heaps that were mountains a few weeks ago...
But, with a new house and yard to decorate, already I have been to Home Depot and Lowes for plant starts (the kind packed in sphagnum moss that don't need to hit the ground right away) and I am (figuratively) standing with trowel in hand, waiting for the snow to be gone and the ground to be soft! Soon I can plant my hostas, siberian iris, dutch iris, ferns, wildflowers, etc. Can't wait!
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It's still too cold in Toronto too, so I started most of my seeds indoors yesterday. Now I just hope they'll germinate!
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