Spring Flowers – Plant Something New This Year!
The weather can be uneven this time of year in Wisconsin, but the recent chill is not stopping some flowers from emerging.
Anyone who maintains a flower garden anxiously anticipates the first blooms of spring. Warmer days and the sunshine of April has gardeners exploring their yard to check on the progress of green shoots emerging from the ground. Beyond the daffodils, tulips and crocuses, there are a host of spring perennials that seldom appear in local gardens, yet they provide plenty of early season beauty. In our own yard we’ve already been enjoying the blooms of dwarf iris, Iris reticulata. I posed the following question to experts at some of our local nurseries: what is an early spring flower that you feel should be in more gardens? Rebecca Milaeger of Milaegers Garden Center in Racine and Sturtevant, favored one of the Hellebores, Lenten Rose, which can…
