When spring arrives on the balcony, it is still too cold for summer flowers and perennials. You can now capture the wonderful spirit of optimism in spring with spring flowers, which like to stage themselves as colorful harbingers of summer planting. You can find out here which types and varieties beautify the flower box in spring.

Hardy spring flowers are set in autumn

Spring bloomers for the balcony - these plants bloom from March

Anyone who has missed the autumn planting season for flower bulbs and perennials will find what they are looking for in garden centers and tree nurseries in spring. There is a large selection of early spring bloomers for the balcony box. March is the planting time for the following species and varieties:

  • Blue Cushion (Aubrieta): Beautifully colored cushion flower with a flowering period from April to May; 5-10cm
  • Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens), the ideal complement to blue cushions with white starry flowers; 15 cm
  • Gold spurge (Euphorbia polychroma) for golden-yellow flowers in a sunny window box; 25-30cm
  • Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), the native spring perennial with purple cupped flowers from March; 20 cm

Pansies and horned violets can be discovered in splendid colors with single and double flowers. The distinctive perennials have therefore emerged as the main actors in the lush flower box (€16.99) for spring. The little beauties are so robust that even late frosty nights do not cause them any problems.

Bergenia heralds spring in the shade

On the shady balcony you don't have to do without colorful flowers in spring. Put early Bergenia (Bergenia) in the flower box and welcome spring with pink flowers from April. When the planting season for summer flowers begins in mid-May, plant the bergenias in the bed so that they adorn the garden with their magnificent ornamental leaves for the rest of the year.

Think about spring in autumn - onion flowers for spring

Thanks to increasingly mild winters, the winter planting continues to present itself in all its glory in spring. By preparing for spring-fresh flowers in autumn, you can save yourself the hassle of planting in spring. This is easy to do with flower bulbs. In the fall, plant bulbs of snowdrops, anemones, crocus, corydalis and snowbloom alongside the hardy plants.

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Grasses that are attractive in spring bridge the waiting time for the flowering festival of magnificent perennials with filigree beauty in the flower box. From the sedge family (Carex), the mushroom head sedge 'The Beatles' and the white-variegated dwarf sedge 'Snowline' with their evergreen tufts and pretty spike flowers are perfect in spring as floral avant-garde for the summer.

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Indoor plants