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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