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Spring is when everything is set up for the entire growing season. Ornamental plants, vegetables, fruit trees… there’s a lot to get done!

Rosa banksiae

Lady Bank’s Rose: varieties, planting and garden uses

Roses
Edgeworthia chrysantha

Edgeworthia chrysantha: expert tips for growing this fragrant shrub

Trees and shrubs
Sanguinaria canadensis

Bloodroot: your complete shade plant guide

Garden Flowers
Styrax americanus

Styrax americanus: your complete guide to growing this fragrant shrub

Trees and shrubs
Polemonium reptans

Jacob’s ladder: your complete shade plant guide

Garden Flowers
Dirca palustris

Dirca palustris: expert tips and planting advice

Trees and shrubs
Gillenia trifoliata white star-shaped flowers in close-up

Gillenia trifoliata: expert tips and planting advice

Garden Flowers
Jeffersonia diphylla twin leaf in woodland shade

Jeffersonia diphylla: your complete shade plant guide

Garden Flowers
Tulipa clusiana

Tulipa clusiana: varieties, planting and garden uses

Bulb flowers
Muscari latifolium

Grape hyacinth: varieties, planting and garden uses

Bulb flowers
Hyacinthoides hispanica

Spanish Bluebell: varieties, planting and garden uses

Bulb flowers
Arisaema triphyllum

Jack-in-the-pulpit: varieties, planting and garden uses

Bulb flowers
Xanthoceras sorbifolium

Xanthoceras sorbifolium: varieties, planting and garden uses

Shrubs
Viburnum carlesii

Korean Spice Viburnum: varieties, planting and garden uses

Shrubs
Rhodotypos scandens

Rhodotypos scandens: expert tips and planting advice

Shrubs
Neillia thibetica

Neillia thibetica: expert tips and planting advice

Shrubs
Lindera benzoin

Spicebush: expert tips for growing this native shrub

Shrubs
Itea virginica

Itea virginica: expert tips and planting advice

Shrubs
Fothergilla gardenii

Fothergilla gardenii: expert tips and planting advice

Shrubs
Vernonia noveboracensis

Vernonia noveboracensis: expert tips and planting advice

Perennials
Thermopsis caroliniana

Thermopsis caroliniana: expert tips and planting advice

Perennials
Doronicum orientale

Doronicum orientale: expert tips and planting advice

Perennials
Stachyurus praecox

Growing Stachyurus praecox: care tips and planting advice

Shrubs
Enkianthus campanulatus

Growing Enkianthus campanulatus: care, varieties and garden uses

Shrubs
Geum coccineum

Growing Geum coccineum: care, varieties and garden uses

Perennials
Aquilegia vulgaris

Growing Columbine: care, varieties and garden uses

Perennials
Amsonia tabernaemontana

Growing Amsonia: expert tips and planting advice

Perennials
Ceanothus thyrsiflorus

California lilac: your complete growing guide

Shrubs
Weigela florida

Weigela Florida Care: How to Grow & Maintain This Flowering Shrub

Shrubs
Spiraea japonica

Japanese spirea: care, varieties and garden uses

Shrubs
Ribes sanguineum

Red Flowering Currant: grow & care for Ribes sanguineum

Shrubs
Forsythia x intermedia

Growing Forsythia: expert tips for vibrant spring blooms

Shrubs
Exochorda racemosa

Growing Pearl Bush: care, pruning and garden uses

Shrubs
Deutzia gracilis

Deutzia gracilis: your complete flowering shrub guide

Shrubs
Chaenomeles speciosa

Chaenomeles speciosa: growing guide and care tips

Shrubs
Trollius europaeus

Growing Trollius: expert tips for golden globe flowers

Perennials
Glossy honey-glazed young carrots on a serving plate, scattered with golden chopped hazelnuts and fresh green thyme leaves, warm orange tones glistening

Glazed Carrots with Honey, Thyme and Toasted Hazelnuts

Side Dish
Winter to spring, flowers that bloom in each month

Flowers from winter through spring, every month gets its blooms!

Bulb flowers
Barn with blue and yellow spring flowers

First flowers to bloom in spring

Garden Flowers
Best spring flowers for a garden box

Flower-filled garden boxes for the springtime

Special reports
Row of onion and strawberry plants

Spring sowing and planting

The Vegetable Patch
Succeed in planting

In spring and fall, succeed in planting… everything!

Special reports
Rows of lettuce and radish sowed and planted in a spring vegetables patch.

Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch

The Vegetable Patch
Mower on a renovated lawn

Renovating a lawn in spring

Lawn Care
Vegetables that help detox the body in spring

Spring Detox Plate: Seasonal Foods, Drinks and Habits at Winter’s End

Health
Trees that bloom in spring

Top 5 spring-blooming trees

Trees and shrubs
Spring garden tasks

Spring garden tasks for each portion of the garden

Month after month
Shrub blooming calendar

Blooming of shrubs one season at a time

Trees and shrubs
Work in the garden during may

The complete guide to spending May in the garden

Month after month
Gloves, a trowel, shears and a few picked weeds show all the tasks to get done in the garden in April.

The complete guide to spending April in the garden

Month after month
Covered sowing

Covered sowing, why and how to protect seedlings in spring

The Vegetable Patch