Early-blooming spring flowers
Blooms in early spring are a sure sign that milder weather is coming. These bulbs and perennials provide a splash of color before many plants bloom after a long winter. Once you see these flowers, you'll know it's soon time to work on your garden!
1 Pansy
Cold Weather Pansies prefer cool spring or fall blooming weather. This short-lived perennial is usually considered an annual to provide color in early-season flower beds, containers, and window boxes. Petals can be any color from white to almost black, and everything in between.
2 Yellow Trillium
Yellow trillium is a true spring plant: when its flowers die back at the end of the season in June, the foliage retreats. However, its marbled leaves and delicate yellow-white flowers are a welcome sight in April. If you're planting a woodland-style garden, combine it with other shade-loving plants.
3 Hellebore
Also known as the Lenten rose or the Christmas rose, hellebores make spring flowers with delicate beauty and surprising resilience. It can tolerate even light frosts in warm climates, making it one of the best flowers to plant in spring. For unusual blooms, ask your nursery about double-blooming varieties.
4 Bloodroot
This herbaceous spring perennial flower makes its appearance in March, shooting small white flowers that last until late spring. Bloodroot is best suited to a shade or woodland garden.
5 Grecian Windflower
Growing from a hard, lumpy tuber that is best planted in fall, the Grecian windflower is a type of anemone. It produces daisy-like flowers for several weeks, and they are all covered in ferny foliage. You can find air flowers in shades of blue, pink, white, and both.
6 Celandine Poppy
One of the first flowers to bloom in spring, the celandine poppy produces beautiful yellow and orange flowers. Also known as wood poppies, this plant looks like a delicate wildflower when in bloom.
7 Dutchman's Breeches
A variety of bleeding hearts, the flowers on the Dutchman's breeches look more like a pair of trousers turned upside down than a heart (hence the name). The flowers are pink or white, in clusters of 10 or more on a stem.
8 Grape Hyacinth
Like other spring bulbs, grape hyacinths trumpet the arrival of spring. Clusters of flowers hang fragrantly from sturdy stalks resembling bunches of grapes; They are one of the best and most beautiful flowers to plant in spring.
9 Crocus
Heralding the departure of winter with beautiful pink, purple, yellow, or white petals, crocuses are one of the best early spring flowers. Planted from corms (swollen stem bases, similar to tubers), crocuses range from delicate flowers to more exotic versions.
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