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Crocus Flower a Sign of Spring!

Which is your Favorite Crocus Flower Color?

Crocus is one of several of the first flowers to come out of the ground in spring. Some people refer to the Crosuses as the light bulb flower, bright like a light bulb.

Crosuses are a perennial flowering bulb flowering in the earliest part of Spring of each year.

Purple is a Popular Favorite!


Purple Crocus is a popular choice, planted closely in lots of 6-12 produces nice grouping of garden Color!

Crocus Flowers are a sign of hope & warm sunny days to come, that Spring has arrived!


There is an Autumn Crocus, known as Meadow Saffron or Naked Lady and is a nice sight in the Autumn Season when there is little color or flowers in one’s garden.Ifyou Did not plant Cocuses in the Fall?

Crocus Tip – Well go to the store and buy some ready to flower Crocus … after they are done flowering plant them in you garden to enjoy them next Spring!

Begonias

Begonias are a popular annual plant that continuously flower all Summer.

Begonias are great in flower beds, flower pots, window boxes and are usually red, white, or pink in color.

PS 1. Two types of Begonias: Wax Begonias are more sun and heat tolerant and the Tuberous begonias need more shade with less heat.
2. A Family of Begoniaceae are best in the front row of your garden as they only grows 6-15 inches or 15-36cm high.

Crabapple Tree Flower and Fruit

Crab Apple Tree in flower close up photo . You can also see the small apples beginning to form on the tree.

A beautiful mid size height tree to buy, plant and enjoy in Spring when it flowers, top pick DIY project or give to your landscaper.

Crab Tree flowering trees are readily available in red, pink, white …  customized varieties can be found in your higher end nursery garden centre.

 

 

Self Seeding Garden Plants?

List of Different Types of Self Seeding Plants

Featured is a Self Seeding Fox Glove,  which offers a great variety of different colored flowering plants.

Excellent place to start gardening with self seeding plants!

Photographed in early summer.Shown is a purchased “garden center Fox Glove” plant which produces lots of flowers over several weeks with the assistance of multiple flowering stems.

In the fall, it will self seed, let your garden do the some of the natural rebirth work!  You can harvest the seed pods over the summer. Replant Fox Gloves else where or give extra seeds to family, neighbors and friends.

Below the photos is handy a list of self seeding flowering plants that can save you some money when at the garden center.Got to plant them before summer comes! 

Here is a list of different self seeding plants, the pictures above are an example of foxglove flower, scientific name is (Digitalis purpurea)

Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Borage (Borago officinalis)

Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)

Honesty (Lunaria annua)

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)

Phacelia tanacetifolia

Pot marigold (Calendula officinalis)

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)

Verbena bonariensis

Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica)

 

Ice Pansy Flower, Is Bigger Better?

The Ice Pansy in Spring is frost hardy flowering plant coming in a multitude of bright solid and mixed assortment of colors.

Yes, for color impact & splash the bigger pansies make noticeable difference, see area calculations at the bottom to understand why!

Spring Flowers: Local garden centers, building stores, Costco display and big box grocery stores offer for sale Ice Pansies because they are frost hardy. Jump start your Spring with color!!!

Fall Flowers: Late Fall Tip: Frost is a killer of most Fall plants and their flowers, so planting greenhouse grown Ice Pansies in the off season, ie found at Lowes, Home Depot and Better Garden Centers, … a a fast way to return color in your prime garden areas.

PS Personally prefer the bigger 2″ plus diameter pansies for BIG color garden impact – takes some searching, not every store has the monster flowers!!!

Question: How much bigger is a 1″ pansy versus a 2″ pansy? Much larger, actually four times larger – see calculation below!

Well a 1″ (2.54 cm) )diameter pansy measures approx. 3/4 (5.06 square cm) of a square inch
A 2″ (5.08cm) )diameter pansy measures approx. 3.14 (20.2 square cm) of a square inch

Mum Flower Garden Display

Fall mums are a great choice! It makes one’s garden color come back when other trees, shrubs and plants are shutting down for the coming of winter months.

Some prefer the yellow mums in gardens as they seem to hold their flowers longer but mixing in another color adds a needed variety and contrast as seen below.

What Type of Flowering Bulb?

Hyacinths can grow in just water because the nutrients are in the bulb!

Hyacinthus is an early bloomer in Spring coming in range of pinks, blues in single or double petal flowers. Hyacinths blooms only once per year and bloom each year as are a perennial plant.A favorite potted plant in the house with of it’s strong fragrant flowers.

A Mother’s Day gift winner!

Witch Hazel Flowers

Witch Hazel is a Spring early bloomer. Plant as a bright yellow garden feature shrub.
Example of Witch Hazel Flowers with lovely yellow, ribbon or strap-like flowers. Features a multitude of blooms well before the leaves open.


P.S. Yellow flowers are a very striking feature, similar with the Forsythia Shrub !

Daffodil Spring Flowers

Signs of Spring! Daffodils are a perennial bulb returning every year with their beautiful flowers.

Miniature Daffy flowers are a cute addition to ones garden and produce  longer lasting color than the crocus flower.

Did you know that Daffodils are toxic. If swallowed it can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.

Good part is squirrels don’t seem to like Daffodils either!

Daffodils in Spring are a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings.

Daffodil in full flower.

Cedar Hedge with Onion Tulips Garden

A “Wow Garden” in part has to do with contrast between plants and trees.

If you have mature cedar hedge, it creates a great dark green back drop for bright contrasting garden flowers as can be seen to the photo.

Don’t have 5-8 years to wait for cedar trees to grow, then possibly consider a wood fence.