What to plant for a pretty spring yard

Planting spring flowering plants in the fall creates an even prettier spring yard! Flowering spring bulbs can even show their blooms when snow is melting on the ground. Here is a list of plants that give us a show early-to-late spring. From spring through fall, anytime you add plants, you’ll be happy you did because they will be enjoyed for years to come.

Spring Blooming Bulbs

These bulbs are available in late summer for you to plant in the fall when temperatures start dropping. Bulbs are one of the more popular plants because of how easy they are to plant. Fall planted bulbs need the cold dormancy period of winter before they bloom in the spring. Plant your bulbs around your late sprouting perennials to fill in the area before the foliage grows in to create a succession of blooms. If you have deer around, look for deer resistant logos on the bulb boxes.

GALLERY OF FALL PLANTED BULBS FOR EARLY SPRING BLOOMS

  • purple large allium blooms
  • yellow crocus
  • Grape Hyacinth in bloom
  • Yellow daffodils bloomin in early spring
  • red tulips
  • Snowdrop flower in the snow

Perennials

Perennials are herbaceous, which means their foliage dies down each fall and will regrow in the spring. These highlighted perennial varieties come up earlier in the spring and create an early show of color!

GALLERY OF PERENNIALS FOR SPRING BLOOMS:

  • blue flower looks like explosion of a veronica blue bomb plant
  • white, yellow, and purple hellebores flowers
  • blue and pink flowers of columbine plant
  • pink heartshaped flowers on a bleeding heart perennial
  • pink flowers of pigsqueak bergenia winter glow
  • white flowers of jacobs ladder plant
  • Tiny white flowers of woodruff plant
  • little purple blue flowers of bugleweed ground cover
  • little pink flowers osn armeria
  • blue flowers of woodland forget me not
  • lots of pink flowers on a forget me not
  • white flowers that look like pants on a dicentra cucullaria
  • golden grounsel or squaw weed yellow blooms in the spring
  • euphorbia cushion spurge yellow growth and blooms

Shrubs

Shrubs drop their foliage each fall unless they are evergreen shrubs. Their woody structures stand over winter, creating winter interest in your yard. Shrubs can create a focal point among perennials and are used to easily create a larger grouping of blooms in the spring. We’ve all seen lilacs blooming in the spring but we’d like to show many other options to consider for an array of blooms in the spring.

SHRUBS FOR SPRING COLOR:

  • forsythia northern gold yellow spring blooms
  • pjm spring blooming purple rhododendron
  • pussy willow catkins in spring
  • white flowers on standing ovation serviceberry
  • red electric lights azalea
  • Bulbous white blooms on a snowball viburnum
  • orange foliage of a barberry shrub
  • Purple flowers on a bloomerang lilac shrub

Trees

Trees will always catch our eye because of their size and the easiest to notice around town in spring arrives. The bright pinks, reds, and whites lining the streets show us that warmer days are ahead and everything is waking from dormancy.

TREES FOR SPRING BLOOMS:

  • blooming mn strain redbud
  • bubble gum pink blooms on show time crabapple
  • light pink large bloom of a first editions centennial blush magnolia tree

Please note that many of the trees and shrubs shown are sold quickly in the spring due to their colorful show and may not be available later in the season. We recommend starting a wish list so you know what to grab, even when it’s not blooming. Visiting Drummers Garden Center and Floral in the spring through fall will give you the best ideas for how your plants will transition and create a perfect yard all season long.