Spring Garden Inspiration

Kick of the spring gardening season with inspiration and tips to make this year’s garden your best ever!
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Yellow Corydalis
Yellow corydalis is a standout in the front half of the season. Beautifully and delicately dissected compound leaves create soft, airy mounds that are pale or grayish green. In spring, tubular yellow blooms float over the canopy of fine leaflets.
Cool-Season Flowers
In spring these cool-season flowers in a planter really showed off: pansies (Viola × wittrockiana, cool-season annual or short-lived perennial), ranunculus (Ranunculus asiaticus, Zones 8–11 or as an annual), and a some grape hyacinths (Muscari armeniacum, Zones 3–9).
Native Spring Wildflowers
Spring is when the native wildflowers in the woods really show off. I love this time of year, when I can go out to look for all my favorites in natural areas.
A ‘Pink Truffles’ Baptisia
There have been a ton of new baptisia introductions the past few years, but one that I simply had to take home from our garden center was ‘Pink Truffles’.
Spring in Mary’s Garden
This reader's spring garden is showing all kinds of early plant life. Check out what's growing this spring, here.
A Double-Flowered Daffodil
The layers of extra petals make this double-flowered daffodil hardly look like a daffodil at all. Click here to see more of these classic spring blooms in Carla’s garden.
A Rose of Sharon That Doesn’t Produce Unwanted Seedlings
What comes to mind when you think of “old school” or “classic” plants? You might think of your grandmother’s bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla and cvs., Zones 5–9), common lilac (Syringa vulgaris and cvs., Zones 3–7), forsythia (Forsythia spp. and cvs., Zones 5–8), or her ultimate classic—rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus* and cvs., Zones 5–9).
End of Spring in Indiana
Today’s photos are from Joe in northern Indiana. May has ended, and hot, dry weather has arrived; it officially feels like summer in the garden. But the last few bits of spring have been beautiful. Here are some of my favorites from the last weeks of May. To view more, visit the link in our bio and click on the linked image.
Spring Into Summer: 6 Garden-Bed Designs to Try This Year
Every garden should have something going on after spring flowers fade and before the summer show really gets going. But in some gardens, this in-between season is punctuated mainly by the spent foliage of spring-blooming bulbs and the amorphous, leafy forms of later-blooming perennials.
Spring Discoveries
After finally clearing the invasive weeds rampant at their new home, our GPOD editor has lots of spring flowers in their new garden.
Wendy’s Albuquerque Garden
Beautiful single white peonies (Paeonia lactiflora, Zones 3–8) in full spring bloom. Check more of Wendy's Albuquerque garden, here.
Sue’s Front Garden
Here is the bright color that’s so welcome once spring finally gets here!
An Easy Approach to Clematis Pruning
Mountain clematis can be pruned after flowering, but pruning is often not necessary for this vigorous grower and others in its pruning group.
The Best Filler Flowers for Beautiful Cut-Flower Bouquets
They may not be the prime focus of a floral arrangement, but filler flowers can be just as important as the stars of the show in a bouquet’s overall design. They are usually not as breathtaking, dramatic, or show-stopping as the flowers taking center stage, but a spray or two of fillers tucked into a display adds structure and volume, and provides contrasting colors/textures. These supporting players act as an attractive, invaluable backdrop.