Spring Color Geraniums

Great Flowering Color for Spring

Last updated on January 19th, 2024 at 04:27 pm

Great Flowering Color for Spring.  These flowering plants will bloom throughout the spring seasons.  Some may last to late summer.  Click on the photo for a larger photo.

Many more plants will provide color throughout the spring seasons.  Here are a few that will help you decide what to plant this spring.

Color Your World Nurseries will typically have these flowering plants in spring.  Ask for these types of plants at your local nursery if you are not from Las Cruces, NM. area.

Spring flowering plants

Geraniums

How to care for Geraniums

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Colorful Geraniums. Use them in containers or hanging baskets. Cover or protect them during freezing temperatures.

Red Salvia Plants

Learn more about Salvia Plant Care

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Red Sage. They come in numerous colors. From bright fuchsia pink to dark purple. Once established drought tolerant. Easy care plant. Plant them in the ground or in containers.

Gazanias

Learn more about The Gazania Plant.

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Gazanias in flower beds or containers.  These plants do well in the Desert Southwest.

Lantana Plants

Learn more about Landscaping with Lantanas

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Dallas Red Lantana is best planted in the ground. Fast grower. The yellow lantana is also a very hardy fast-growing colorful plant.

 

Great Flowering Color for Spring

Daisies for some great color – Checkout Gerbera Daisys

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Daisies for color. In containers or in flower beds. Image by lisa runnels from Pixabay

The Cosomos Plants

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Cosmos plant them around trees or along sidewalks. Also good in containers with other smaller annuals. Most local nurseries will have the seeds or the plant in small containers.

Coreopsis Plant

Learn more about the Flowering Perennial Coreopsis

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Coreopsis yellow flower. In containers or around flowering beds. Plant underneath filtered light. Image by hellenmoreirat0 from Pixabay

California Poppies

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California Poppies are great around desert landscaping areas. Blooms in early to mid-spring.

Blue or Violet Salvia

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Blue Salvia plants. They come in blue, lavender, dark purple, and white. Plant in mass for great visual appeal. Mid-spring throughout the summer months. Image by Petra Faltermaier from Pixabay

Coleus Plants

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Coleus plants in the foreground. Use foliage color. Many types and varieties. They do best in large containers.
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More Coleus.

Marigolds in the Garden

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Bright orange Marigolds. Plant them in mass. Short flowering plants are great for foreground containers or in a flower bed.

Million Bells also Known as Mini Petunias

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Million Bells. AKA mini petunias. Use them in hanging baskets or plant them in the ground. They will drape over containers.  Million Bells Plants

Red Verbena

Great Flowering Color for Spring
Red Verbena. Great in a hanging basket. Or plant them in the ground for a great ground cover.  There is also the Purple Verbena Plants

Petunias for summer color

Great Flowering Color for Spring
Petunias in a wine barrel. Try the Wave Petunia they will bloom all summer long…all the way to late fall. They do best in containers or pots. Wave Petunias do best in the Southwest.
Great Flowering Color for Spring
More Geraniums. So many colors and varieties.
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Columbine flowers. Easy care of flowering plants. White, purple, and pink longed stemmed plants.
Black-Eyed Susan Plant
Black-Eyed Susan. Plant them in fields or your backyard. Great looking yellow flower.
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Violas or Johnny Jump-ups. Great in hanging baskets or planting them in gardening beds. – Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay
Great flowering color for spring
Purple flower coneflower or Echinacea – Image by Mabel Amber, still incognito… from Pixabay

Gerbera Daisy

Big colorful flowers

Gerbera Daisies in Pots
Gerbera Daisies for flowering color in Spring

 

 

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Comments

    • Patricia Gonzalez
    • September 26, 2016
    Reply

    A question. Do you carry creosote bushes?

      • Paul Guzman
      • September 27, 2016
      Reply

      Hello, Patricia unfortunately, we do not carry Creosote bushes. It is a hard plant to keep in a container.
      Paul

    • bs
    • February 21, 2017
    Reply

    what plants would you recommend for layering terra cotta planters. ie a large one, and med inside of that one and a small one inside the med.

    • Debbie
    • May 24, 2017
    Reply

    Do you carry coneflowers?

      • Paul Guzman
      • May 26, 2017
      Reply

      Yes, we do!

        • Debbie
        • May 26, 2017
        Reply

        Great, thank you.

    • Glenn E Amesquita
    • April 9, 2020
    Reply

    My wife is looking for some indoor plants do you have any recommendations??

  1. Reply

    Yes, try the Pothos hanging plants. They are easy to care for and you can place them in a medium to lots of light areas. Here is a link with information on common houseplants.

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