When spring arrives on the balcony, it is still too cold for summer flowers and perennials. You can now capture the wonderful feeling of optimism in spring with spring bloomers, which like to present themselves as colorful harbingers of summer planting. You can find out here which types and varieties will beautify your flower box in spring.
Which plants are suitable for balcony boxes in spring?
In spring, blue cushions, candytufts, golden spurge, pasque flowers, pansies, horned violets and bergenia beautify the balcony box. Bulb flowers planted in fall, such as snowdrops, anemones and crocuses, also provide colorful spring blooms. Complementary grasses such as mushroom-head sedge or white-variegated dwarf sedge provide additional accents.
Spring bloomers for the balcony - these plants bloom from March
If you missed the autumn planting time for flower bulbs and perennials, you will find them in garden centers and tree nurseries in spring. There is a large selection of early spring bloomers available for the balcony box. March is the planting time for the following species and varieties:
- Blue cushion (Aubrieta): cushion flower in beautiful colors with a flowering period from April to May; 5-10cm
- Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens), the ideal complement to blue cushions with white star flowers; 15cm
- Gold spurge (Euphorbia polychroma) for golden-yellow flowers in sunny flower boxes; 25-30cm
- Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), the native spring perennial with purple cup flowers from March; 20cm
Pansies and horned violets can be discovered in magnificent colors with single and double flowers. The distinctive perennials have therefore emerged as the main protagonists in the lush flower box for spring. The little beauties are so robust that even late frost nights don't cause them any problems.
Bergenia ushers in spring in the shade
You don't have to miss out on colorful flowers in spring on the shady balcony. Put early bergenias (Bergenia) in the flower box and welcome spring with pink flowers from April. When the planting time for summer flowers begins in mid-May, transplant the bergenias into the bed so that they decorate the garden with their magnificent decorative leaves for the rest of the year.
Think about spring in autumn – bulb flowers for spring
Thanks to increasingly mild winters, winter planting continues to present itself in all its splendor in spring. By preparing for spring-fresh flowers in the fall, you can save yourself the effort of planting in the spring. This is easy to do with flower bulbs. In the fall, plant bulbs of snowdrops, anemones, crocuses, larkspurs and snowgloss next to the hardy plants.
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Attractive spring grasses with delicate beauty in the flower box bridge the waiting time for the blossom festival of magnificent perennials. From the sedge (Carex) family, the mushroom-head sedge 'The Beatles' and the white-colored dwarf sedge 'Snowline', with their evergreen heads and pretty spiked flowers in spring, are perfect as a floral avant-garde for the summer.