- Tulips are spring-blooming flowers planted during the fall season.red and yellow tulips image by Jorge Moro from Fotolia.com
Choosing flowers for your home garden is an experience with limitless potential. Your vast array of options includes color, shape and size. Along with the visually creative side of gardening comes the planning. Depending upon the type of flower you choose and its bloom time, each plant has a particular planting season. Design your home garden based on your aesthetic as well as the calendar. - Japanese anemones (Anemone japonica) are herbaceous perennial flowers that display blossoms in pink or white with green foliage. Blooming from September until frost, these flowers must be planted in the spring and they do not fare well in cases of transplanting. Japanese anemones thrive in partial shade and prefer well-drained, loam soil high in organic content. These perennials reach a height of 3 feet.
- Tulips are grown from bulbs as annuals. A spring-flowering bulb, the tulip's planting season is fall, preferably once temperatures fall below 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Tulips and other spring-flowering bulbs grow and perform best in a minimum of six hours of sun a day in extremely well-drained soil. These colorful flowers display blossoms in a wide array of bright hues, including solid or striped reds, pinks, whites, yellows and oranges accompanied by green foliage. Tulips reach a height of approximately 12 to 30 inches.
- Pincushion flowers (Scabiosa atropurpurea), also referred to as sweet scabiosas, are annual flowers with a planting time of early to late spring. With a penchant for full sun exposure, these flowers reach a height of 1 to 3 feet and prefer moist, well-drained soil. Pincushion flowers display green foliage and full blossoms that resemble asters. Flowers are dark pink and bloom during the summer season.
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