Beautiful Spring Garden Flowers

When spring finally comes around, one of the first thing garden lovers want to do is plant flowers that will show some immediate color, beauty, and life. And doing this is quite easy, as long as you choose some spring garden flowers which are known to bloom early.

Here are several different spring garden flowers you might want to try:

Pansy - Pansies are popular annual flowers almost anywhere. They come in a huge variety of colors - solid and variagated - bloom profusely in the spring, and have dark centers that some people think resemble a face. Pansies grow about six to ten inches high and spread out about ten to twelve inches in width. They grow well in both sun or partial shade, but they don't seem to hold up too well with full sunlight during the heat of summer in some of the hotter gardening zones. They can tolerate cool weather well though.

Pansies are easily grown by seed, but you'll often find starter seedling plants at your local garden center or discount department store during the first several weeks of spring.

Vinca - This beautiful hardy little annual plant produces gorgeous spring garden flowers from the minute you find it at the store. It grows about six inches tall and blooms from early spring on through summer in some areas of the country. The leaves are a dark green, glossy color, and this spring garden flower is often found in starter sizes at almost any garden center or discount department store.

Vinca flowers look very similar to pansies, but they seem to hold up much better even in very hot full sun locations. They also appear to bloom much longer. Like pansies, vincas will spread out about ten to twelve inches, so be sure to plant them with at least six inches of space between. You'll find vinca flowers in purple, red, white, and various combinations of colors too.

Daffodils, Crocus and Other Fall Bulbs - With a little bit of planning ahead, you can get fall Daffodil and Crocus bulbs planted in September or October, and you'll have gorgeous blooming flowers as early as February or March depending on the gardening zone you live in. When buying fall bulbs, look for ones marked as early bloomers, and this will make sure you're getting new flower blooms as early as possible when spring starts.

Bougainvillea - If you live in warmer gardening climates, zones 9 and up are best but I've seen these do well starting at zone 7b too, particularly if they're mulched well through the winter, or kept in containers and brought inside during cold weather.

These start blooming early each spring and just keep going through late fall. And as strange at is might sound, they actually bloom better when they're neglected and under-watered a bit. Bougainvillea have beautiful bracts which look like flower petals but actually aren't. Those are where the color comes from though: Paper thin, these bracts can bloom in orange, red, purple, yellow, white and even lavender. Bougainvilleas are actually a shrub which grow very quickly. They can also grow as vines or climbers on a fence or trellis, and they're quite showy. The flowers attract butterflies too.