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Spring flowers add vibrancy and color to your garden and landscape while lifting your spirits with the promise of warmer weather, longer days, and more time outdoors. These pretty spring flowers will brighten your yard, porch, or patio this season. They are easy to grow and require little maintenance once established in your yard and garden beds. Plant them now to enjoy their beauty all season long!
This post is all about the prettiest spring flowers that will impress your garden this year.
Spring Blooms: Must-Plant Flowers for the Season
Spring flowers will bring life and color to your yard in time for the spring season, so it’s essential to pick the right ones if you want them to flourish. From azaleas to tulips, here are some of the best spring flowers to plant this season! Check out these spectacular spring flower ideas you can grow now to enjoy every spring!
The Spring Flowers You Need If You Love Color
Azaleas and hydrangeas are show-stopping garden flowers that bloom in early spring. What I love about these two springtime favorites is that they return yearly with bigger, better blooms.
I love my hydrangea bushes! They are easy to grow in the south and can be found in various colors. To ensure your hydrangeas last, cut them back by half once they bloom.
Azaleas are slightly more challenging but still relatively easy to grow in a suitable landscape. Here in our North Carolina garden zone 8A, azaleas are seen just about everywhere. They do well in full sun to partially shaded areas.
Both azaleas and hydrangeas return every year and require little maintenance. They are lovely additions to a spring flower garden.
Next, pansies are tiny and come in a wide range of colors; these little guys make excellent garden plants for beginners because they’re very low-maintenance annually and don’t require much care.
Plant pansies in garden boxes and other plants in your flower beds. They look great alone, in bunches, or as borders.
Pansies are edible, too! You could make so many treats like these with your new garden pansies!
Forget-me-nots are a dainty favorite that produces an abundance of tiny blossoms in vibrant purple, blue, and pink. The delicate petals can be used to make bouquets or scattered throughout flower beds for a subtle pop of color.
Forget-me-nots prefer full sun but will thrive in semi-shade, which makes them ideal for adding flair to gardens that aren’t fully exposed or don’t get consistent sunlight.
Since they tend to bloom around Easter, forget-me-nots also make a lovely gift from one garden lover to another!
The Spring Flowers You Need If You Love Fragrance
There are so many beautiful, aromatic spring flowers!
Alyssum comes in purple, pink, and white. These little beauties will add color to your garden with little effort. Plant these in large clusters alongside hyacinth for a significant splash of color and fragrance.
Flowering trees like magnolias and cherry blossoms are stunning additions to a beautiful landscape, especially when they fill up with bright pink blooms.
Carnations or roses make lovely cut flowers; whatever type you grow, pick some from your garden for special occasions throughout spring. Who doesn’t love the smell of roses?
Spring Flowers That Attract Wildlife
To attract various beneficial insects and pollinators, go for a mix of colors and shapes. Butterflies, bees, moths, hummingbirds, and other insects are drawn to flowers with various colors—orange, yellows, reds, and purples—and shapes—round or puffy petals.
The more detail in a flower’s design, such as thin lines or rough textures on its petals, the more attractive to pollinators.
In terms of color scheme, some experts suggest picking one color from each part of the visible light spectrum: violet (400 nanometers), blue (470 nm), green (530 nm), and red (600 nm). But feel free to experiment!
Butterfly bush is a favorite in our garden. Also, planting a mix of alyssum, aster, bee balm, calendula, cosmos, daylily, and delphinium would be best. Plant bleeding heart if you want to see more hummingbirds in your garden!
Easy to Grow Spring Garden Flowers
You needn’t be a full-fledged botanist to grow your beautiful flowers. If you have some space and don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you can enjoy a stunning spring display of vibrant colors—all without making a memorable trip to buy them.
Growing annuals takes only a bit of know-how, but once you get it right, it’s fun and easy! You can buy easy-to-transplant plants at the nursery or hardware store. They will look great all season with little maintenance.
Easy to Grow Annual Spring Flowers
- Calendula
- Osteospermum
- Pansy
- Dianthus
- Petunia
- Flowering Kale
- Snapdragon
- Phlox
Spring Flowers for Lazy Gardeners
Lazy or lacking time, there are still ways to grow a beautiful garden of flowers! Spring is a wonderful time of year for starting new plants. Many flowers, such as petunias and pansies, are easy to grow from seed (or buy potted).
If you have the space, why not toss out some seeds of your favorite spring wildflowers, like the perennial flowers below, and let nature take control? It will be so rewarding to see what pops up.
Since these plants come back year after year, you can rearrange the plants later to fill in gaps or create some space. There is a need to rush, and who says you need to be an expert gardener to experiment a little? Sometimes, it is just more fun that way!
We have sourced most of our flower seeds from the Home Grown Store. The prices and selection are great. The annual and perennial mix had excellent germination, and now we sell our seeds from the garden.
Pretty Flowers For Balconies And Pots
Nasturtiums, dianthus, and petunias will add vibrant color to any outdoor space with little effort. Nasturtiums are known for their bright orange-red blooms, while dianthus is a bolder choice with rich purple flowers.
Petunias come in various shades and are great in hanging baskets or containers on your balcony or patio. These flowers are great for a beginner gardener because they require little attention and are relatively easy to maintain. Water them regularly and watch them grow!
Forget-me-nots are a traditional sign of remembrance and sorrow, but these cheerful little flowers will provide welcome color on your balcony or in pots around your home. The blue forget-me-nots attract birds who will happily feast on them throughout spring.
The flowers grow well in poor soil, so they’re perfect for pots on busy urban balconies where you might have trouble maintaining regular plantings due to pests, extreme temperatures, and other conditions.
Forget-me-nots also come in pink and white varieties if you’re looking for a more subtle look that still attracts wildlife. Whatever color you choose, these pretty plants are a great way to brighten an outdoor space while still being beautiful!
When to Plant Flowers for the Spring
Fall is a perfect time to plant spring flowers, especially perennials and bulbs. Some perennials like echinacea require cold temps to germinate. Plant about 6-8 weeks before frigid winter temperatures set in.
But don’t worry, you can still plant in the spring, too! Wait until the last frost has passed. The soil needs to be warm and damp for good germination.
This post was all about pretty spring flowers that spruce up your garden!
