![]() ![]() If your soil is poorly drained, a container like this one gives the tubers just what they need to grow beautiful plants.Ħ ways to create a beautiful spring gardenĪ no-fail formula for making beautiful containers Flowering can continue up to five weeks, with individual blooms lingering for three to seven days in cool weather. Ranunculus puts on quite a show - perfect for early spring containers like the one above. In areas where they’re cold-hardy, position ranunculus near perennials or shrubs to hide the foliage as it fades and the bare spot dormant plants leave behind. Because each ranunculus can have several 2- to 5-inch flowers open at one time, smaller-scale plantings are just as pleasing. ![]() See how 12- to 16-inch-tall Bloomingdale II Orange in the photo above fills the gap between lower-growing primrose ( Primula hybrids) and spiky snapdragons behind? While ranunculus look great planted in mass like this, you don’t have to buy buckets full of them to enjoy the pretty blooms. It’s easy to work in ranunculus near the front of a border. Let me introduce you ranunculus and some of the things I’ve learned since my first disappointing effort. & hybrids), snapdragons ( Antirrhinum majus) and other spring favorites. Then I learned they're really cool-season flowers and thrive in the same conditions as pansies ( Viola spp. I just chalked it up to them being difficult to grow. (Technically they're tuberous roots but are sometimes called tubers for short.) Unfortunately, when I tried to grow them, the results weren’t great - spindly foliage and no blooms. One spring I bought a bag of tubers on sale at a big box store in late spring. I’ve always admired ranunculus (also called Persian buttercup) - those beautiful flowers are real attention-getters in photos and florist’s bouquets.
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