Spring

Spring -The spring garden is full of hope and promise as it wakes up after the winter. Some of the highlights are explosions of colourful bulbs, breathtaking displays from early flowering shrubs and stunning tree blossom.

Which month is...

• Early Spring - March
• Mid Spring April
• Late Spring May

Plants at their best

Early Spring

• Camellia (shrub)
• Chaenomeles (wall shrub)
• Cornusmus (shrub)
• Crocus (bulb)
• Eranthis hyemalis (bulb)
• Garrya elliptica (herbaceous)
• Helleborus orientalis (herbaceous)
• Iris reticulata (bulb)
• Magnolia stellata (shrub)
• Mahonia (shrub)
• Primula X polyantha (herbaceous)
• Ribus Sanguineum (shrub)
• Salix (shrub)
• Spirea thunbergia (shrub)
• Tulipa kaufmanniana (bulb) 

Mid Spring

• Forsythia (shrub)
• Helleborus orientalis (herbaceous)
• Hyacinthus (bulb)
• Magnolia X soulangiana (tree)
• Magnolia stellata (shrub)
• Muscari armeniacum (bulb)
• Narcissus (bulb)
• Primula X polyantha (herbaceous)
• Prunus ‘Kwanzan’ (tree)
• Pulsatilla vulgaris (rock plant)
• Ribes Sanguineum (shrub)
• Tulipa, various (bulb) 

Late Spring

• Aubretia (rock plant)
• Azalea (sh)
• Bergenia (non-woody evergreen)
• Choiysa ternata (shrub)
• Clematis montana (shrubby climber)
• Crataegus (tree)
• Cystisus, various (sh)
• Erysimum (biennial)
• Fritillaria (bulb)
• Genista (shrub)
• Laburnum (tr)
• Malus (tr)
• Paeonia (herbaceous and shrub)
• Phlox subulata (rock plant)
• Pulsatilla vulgaris (rock plant)
• Rhodedendron, various (shrub)
• Saxifraga, various (rock plant)
• Syringa (shrub)
• Tulipa, various (bulb)
• Wisteria (shrubby climber)