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Best Time To Plant Spring Bulbs

What better way to welcome Spring than to show off your beautiful flowers that you planted. Spring flowering bulbs are one of the easiest plants to grow. If you are careful during the planting process than you will be rewarded with many years of beautiful flowers.

So when do you plant Spring flowering bulbs? That answer depends on where you live and what the climate is like. Bulbs will need to spend many weeks in the ground in order for their root system to grow and spread. This must be done before the ground freezes making it impossible for them.

Hydrangea

Hydrangeas are types of plants that can help to give your garden color. They were discovered in Japan and brought back to the western world during the middle of the 18th century.

There are five main species but one is more common then the rest, hydrangea macrophylla. They like to be in a part sun/shade area of the garden. Hydrangeas are a flowering shrub, which flowers through the spring, summer, and into the autumn. The color of the flower is dependent on the type of soil.