The beautiful days are here, the perfect opportunity to enjoy days outdoors and take care of your garden! It’s time to put on your gloves and get your hands dirty, but first, take a look at our little overview of spring flowers. For a special express spring gardening course, click here!
Bulbous plants, essential spring flowers
The bulbous plant family includes bulb plants such as tulips, tuber plants such as dahlias, and rhizome plants such as lily of the valley. In concrete terms, the bulb of these plants is a reserve organ that protects them against bad weather or bad years. In the summer, the bulb comes out of hibernation, it can wait for favorable conditions for months, so you can plant it before winter for flowering in spring.
Bulbous plants are fairly easy to grow, simply immerse them in the soil in your garden three to four times the height of their bulb. On the other hand, if you plant them in a pot, the limited amount of soil weakens them, so you need to protect them from bad weather, in a place where you can monitor the temperature. They are planted in a fairly porous mixture with a preparation for pots and planters, if necessary added sand or gravel with about 10 centimeters between each bulb. At the end of February, the bulbs must be exposed to full sun to develop harmoniously.
You can alternate different bulbs, the larger ones buried deeper in the ground (tulip, daffodil, hyacinth) and the smaller ones just above (dwarf iris, crocus). Plant the bulbs during October and November for flowering in the spring. Among the bulbous plants that flower at the beginning of the fine weather, we find the tulip, the daffodil, the hyacinth or the anemone. To find out more,
Perennials are making a comeback
These plants can live for two years following their flowering rhythm, they can be in flower all year round or only appear in spring like lavender. Be careful, they do not like frost, so they will be grown annually in France, or at least in general, while in the tropics, they can flower for years. They are planted in autumn or spring (they are pruned on the same dates), leaving them enough space for them to develop. You have to make sure to water them well after planting, even if in principle, they only really need water in the summer.
If your plants last several years, you should think about adding compost in March-April and removing their dead leaves in the fall. There are a multitude of perennial plants, so you will find one for each area of your garden. They are ideal for structuring the space. For a fairly shaded area, we will prefer ferns while fragrant lavender will delight a sunny path, we will prefer peonies for your flowerbeds and borders.
Finally, climbing plants
Easy to live with, climbing plants are ideal for dressing up a wall or a terrace. Ivy is probably the most widespread climbing plant, clematis are also part of it. They require little care and quickly cover the chosen surface. In general, climbing plants like the sun, this is the case for clematis flammula with its strong almond scent or even campsites, with orange or red trumpet flowers.
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