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Step 1
Think about color. The first think you should consider when planning your spring flower garden is to pick two main colors to focus on. Spring-flowering plants commonly feature white, yellow, orange, light purple and blue. Pick a couple colors you like that go well together and work from there to expand your color scheme into other colors.
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Step 2
Plan the height of your flower garden. Look carefully at the mature heights of the plants you choose and plan to arrange them with shorter plants in front of taller plants so all the flowers can be seen. Picking three or more different heights of plants can give your garden depth and interest.
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Step 3
Pick some spring bulbs to go in the flower garden. Bulbs often produce the earliest spring flowers and many types of bulbs are perennials, even in cold climates. Daffodils, hyacinth and tulips will often be up and flowering before annuals can even be planted and crocuses and irises soon follow.
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Step 4
Use perennials together with bulbs to form the basic outline of the flower garden. Space perennials and bulbs out so annuals can be mixed in. Look for perennials which bloom in late spring to supplement the early and mid spring bulbs.
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Step 5
Add some annuals. Annuals are good for borders in a spring flower garden because annuals which bloom in the spring are usually short. Pansies can be planted when the ground temperature reaches 45 degrees Fahrenheit and can withstand mild frost. Other annuals, such as petunias, can be planted in borders once all danger of frost has passed.
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Step 6
Try some foliage plants for color all spring. Hostas and coleus offer colorful foliage from the day they are planted in early spring to the first frost in the fall. Canna lilies bloom in the summer, but their attractive dark green foliage make for good backdrops for spring flower gardens.
