It may still be winter in your neck of the woods, but spring is on the way and here are twelve stunning container gardens to whet your appetite. These amazing plant combinations include daffodils, fragrant hyacinths, tulips in many shades and multi-colored pansies. For a bit more height include some branches of pussy willow or budding forsythia. These twelve spring container gardens are described in an article by Lauren Dunec Hoang which I found on the Houzz website.
Spring into the new season with potted vignettes that exclaim ?out with winter? and ?in with buds and blooms.? Here are 12 container combinations ? with pastel-petaled tulips, sunny daffodils, bright green foliage and sweet strawberries ? that capture spring in all its glory.1. Celebration of spring.?Welcome the season with a sunny arrangement of mixed bulbs of various heights and delicate pansies tucked to fill in around the base. Here, a pair of deep urns planted with medium-purple tulips, yellow daffodils, pink ranunculuses, grape hyacinths (Muscari sp.), pansies and variegated English ivy makes a glorious entry arrangement.2. Spring trio.Make an impact with an odd number of spring containers arranged together in a vignette. The designer of this entryway trio massed colorful pansies and nemesias in the lowest container, planted the medium container with an evergreen combination of boxwood and trailing ivy, and played up the height of the largest container with purple foxgloves (Digitalus sp.).
A clever trick to try at home: Use cut pussy willow branches stuck into the soil as an attractive support for tall bloom spikes.3. Purple rain.Florist hydrangeas are bred to bloom on much smaller plants than shrubby garden hydrangeas, making them a perfect scale for spring containers. Buy them budding or already in bloom and combine with fragrant hyacinths (Hyacinth sp.), grape hyacinths and chartreuse stonecrop (Sedum rupestre ?Lemon Coral?) to re-create this look. ?Mathilda Gutges? bigleaf hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla ?Mathilda Gutges?) grow in this container.
After their peak, florist hydrangeas can be planted out into sunny garden beds.
4. Miniature vignette.
For a small-scale display ? perfect for an elevated container where you can see the arrangement up close ? plant tiny daffodils like 8-inch-tall ?Hawera? or ?Baby Boomer? in combination with pansies and hyacinths. If you?d like a bit more height, tuck in branches of pussy willow or budding forsythia.
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