Since we are now going into the last month of Summer, now is the perfect time to start planning your spring displays in time for bulb planting season. From delightful Daffodils and Narcissi to deep, dark Tulips, we have a fun and colourful planting idea to suit any spring garden border.
Here are our 12 spectacular spring planting ideas…
1. Fantastically Fragrant
Recreate this boldly colourful spring theme with vibrant yellow Narcissi and blue Muscari for a fragrant, clustered, show-stopping display.
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Narcissi JetfireA real British favourite. This sweet-scented clump-forming Daffodil produces bright yellow petals with a deep orange trumpet. Surrounded by purple flowers, such as Muscari and Crocus, for an extraordinary spring display.
This RHS Award-winning Muscari variety blooms with electric deep violet-blue pea-like flowers and is guaranteed to make a real feature in the garden, especially when planted in groups. An additional benefit is its lovely fragrance. The more you plant, the more fragrance you get!
2. Fiery
By blending warm shades of orange, pink and peach together, you can create a beautiful fiery and fragrant display of spring colour.
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An RHS Award-Winning Hyacinth. With its distinct bold reddish/pink colour, ‘Jan Bos’s’ floral spikes are a perfect fragrant addition to mid spring beds, borders or along walkways. They will even naturalize beautifully in the right spot.
A true symbol of spring. Tulip ‘Suncatcher’ produces bright golden yellow blooms that are detailed with fiery scarlet edging, that are sure to bring the warmth to your spring borders with their intense colouring.
This uniquely coloured Hyacinth produces star-shaped flowers in soft, warm apricot and pink tones. Enjoy these highly perfumed blooms in pots, containers or garden border and beds.
With their densely packed flower spikes, Muscari Blue Magic are perfect for adding a contrasting accent to this fiery themed border. ‘Blue Magic’ blooms in mid spring with a stunning royal blue colour. Best planted in groups for an amazing visual impact.
3. Dramatic & Bold
Add a touch of drama to your borders with this monochromatic scheme. A simple blend of colours that provides a big impact.
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Extremely popular and considered as one of the top ten prettiest deep purple cultivars, the RHS Award-winning Tulip ‘Queen of Night’. Known as the blackest Tulip ever bred, their impressive, velvety dark maroon blooms are the perfect show-stoppers in any spring border.
Blooming with the purest white flowers, and alongside ‘Queen of Night’, Tulip ‘Alabaster’ creates the most striking spring display. Paired together, these Tulips will blend together for a fantastic checkerboard-like-effect.
4. Pastel
Pastel flowers look beautiful in the bright spring sunshine, but also stand out in shade gardens and can brighten up especially dark areas. For a peaceful and relaxing space, try this sweet shop themed Tulip and Muscari mixture.
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Scented blooms of this Muscari bloom in shades of cool, pale blues which fade to white towards the tip. This pretty variety is robust with a delightful sweet fragrance that is perfect for naturalizing in a woodland garden at the front of the border or in containers.
With a huge cream base and candy pink edging, the delicate edges of Tulip Huis Ten Bosch look as though they are made from spun sugar – and it’s no surprise why this Tulip is known as the ‘Candy Floss Tulip’.
5. Wonderful White
A timeless and sophisticated colour scheme. Brighten up your borders with crisp, clean white Tulips.
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With neatly formed, cup-shaped blooms in the purest white, Tulip ‘Clearwater’ will create a sophisticated and modern look when planted en-masse in the spring border. They tend to look best at dawn and dusk, when they practically glow in the half-light.
6. Bright & Cheerful
Let your creativity flow and inject some life into the spring garden with bright, bold colours. If you’re looking for something that packs a punch, this combination is for you.
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An RHS Award-Winning Tulip. Blooming with soft lilac petals surrounding a bright sunny yellow center, this colourful compact variety makes a wonderful addition to spring beds and borders, or even for naturalizing in groups in grassy areas for maximum impact.
This early spring bloomer is quite possible the most renowned scented dwarf Daffodil on the market. These RHS Award-Winning perennials boast perfectly formed, fragrant flowers with pale yellow petals and bright yellow trumpets. Plant en masse or with other flowers for visual impact.
Along with the vibrant shades of the yellow Narcissi and pink Tulips, the bold tones of Muscari ‘Blue Magic’ are perfect for adding compact accents of rich blue to the spring border.
7. Glowing
Light up your garden with warm tones of yellow, orange and red.
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Tulip Verandi & Narcissus Falconet
‘Verandi’ offers glowing deep red blooms with brilliant thin edge of yellow. Whilst Narcissus ‘Falconet’ is a cheerful bright yellow flower with deep orange cups in the center. A stunning display that will shine in the spring time when planted together.
8. Cool and Tranquil
For a fresh, clean combination, try this simple yet eye-catching colour scheme.
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Also known as ‘White Cloud’, this Darwin Hybrid Tulip boasts large snowy blooms that will gleam in the spring garden, and are guaranteed to bring borders to life. This long lasting mid-season variety will create a soothing effect when planted against blue spring flowers for a cool, calming border.
Featuring eye-catching grape-like clusters of sky blue flowers, this Grape Hyacinth looks truly magical planted alongside white spring-flowering bulbs. They’re hardy, easy to grow and go with so many planting schemes – no garden should be without them.
9. Early Season Sunshine
The most striking combinations are complimentary colours, e.g. purple and yellow. Bring the sunshine to your garden with this cheerful plant combo.
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These deep violet flowers with contrasting orange stems are a pure delight in early spring. Bearing large, cup-like flowers, this vigorous variety is perfect for naturalizing against Daffodils for a stunning and vibrant border display. Spectacular when planted in large, sweeping drifts.
The perfect match for planting alongside purple Crocus blooms are the lemony-yellow flowers of Narcissi ‘Lemon Sailboat’. The petals on these delicate blooms are swept back like sail on a boat, hence their name. Their sweetly scented blooms are ideal for naturalizing in the spring garden.
10. Colour Block
Make a real statement with texture and shape with this simple colour blocking display style.
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Plant this sultry mixture of red Tulips, from light crimson to deep dusky reds, to create a terrific, multi-textured spring display. Perfect flowers for planting en masse for maximum effect, or in pots and containers. Mixtures are also available in other shades, including orange, pink and purple.
11. Dreamy
Add some romance to your garden using charming shades of pink, purple and white with this fresh and classic cottage garden style.
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Named for the lusciously sweet Dutch pastry (kind of like a pink Napoleon), ‘Tom Pouce’ is especially enchanting in the spring sunshine. This lovely Tulip is a sweet combination of bright pink that fades into a soft, creamy yellow towards the base. An ideal choice for mid-spring borders.
Also known as ‘Bouquet Tulip’, ‘Purple Bouquet’ produces pretty purple flowers that have multiple blooms per stem. Paired alongside pink spring flowers, these are the perfect companions for designing a magical cottage garden-like border display.
These pure white blooms are perfect for creating the most attractive mid to late spring flowering combinations. Along with pink and purple varieties, this graceful yet striking Tulip is perfect for planting en masse in a border to add a flash of crystal clear white colour.
12. Complementary Colours
Intensify your spring garden with an excitingly bold and beautiful colour palette.
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Known for their colossal and reliable blooms, this popular Tulip will bring the sunshine in spring with their deep, golden yellow blooms. This bold and beautiful Darwin Tulip is fantastic for the border to brighten up the spring garden. Pair alongside purple flowers for a show-stopping display.
The best, large flowered pansy on the market. This gorgeous mix of cool, soft blues and violet pansies are the perfect long-lasting flowers to accent a contrasting yellow Tulip in spring borders. Plant en masse with spring flowering bulbs for an impressive display of colour.
Planting Tips 🏡📆
Here’s a simple guide to when you should plant your spring flowering bulbs this autumn for the perfect displays.
Crocus: September – November
Daffodils: September – November
Hyacinths: September
Tulips: October – November
Muscari – Before first frosts
Thanks for sharing these creative & exciting planting ideas.