Cool-Weather Plantings for Spring Containers Are you looking for some cool-weather plants to tuck into spring containers? We have three colorful planting plans that can handle the cold nips in spring. Welcome spring with cool-weather containers
Winter is fading away and spring annual and perennial flowers are starting to pop up in garden centers in full bloom. Even if the ground is still frozen in your beds and borders, you can start planting containers to scratch that gardening itch you’ve had all winter. Cool temperatures and spring rains mean you shouldn’t have to water much. And once these plants are done blooming, the rest of the garden will be in full swing and you can transplant any that are perennials into your borders to grow and flower next year. Ready to plant? Here are three spring-blooming containers to get you started.
Pink spring container planting with pansies & Persian buttercupsDeep pink Persian buttercup is the star in this cobalt-blue ceramic pot, sending papery roselike flowers up for weeks as long as you keep deadheading. Buy Persian buttercups in bloom or as tubers you can grow yourself. Start tubers indoors in winter, 12 to 16 weeks before setting them outside when temperatures are between 50 and 60 degrees F during the day.
Let this planting dry between waterings to prevent the Persian buttercup and dianthus crowns from getting too wet and rotting. As daily temperatures rise, Persian buttercup foliage will get leggy, turn yellow and die as the plant goes dormant. Pull the plant out, pluck off dead foliage, brush soil from the tuber and store it in a paper bag in a cool, dark, dry location until next winter, when you can start it again inside. Replace the cool-weather-loving dianthus and
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