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You are here: Home / April in the garden / Spring garden container with pink and yellow

Spring garden container with pink and yellow

By Beckie Fox Filed Under: April in the garden, Containers

Yellow and white primroses paired with pink hellebores make a pretty spring container garden.
Yellow and white primroses paired with pink hellebores make a pretty spring container garden. (Garden Making photo)

Your spring garden containers don’t always need to include tulips and daffodils for a pop of colour. Many spring-blooming perennials hold up for weeks in a pot display, and can transplanted at the end of the season to make room for summer flowers.

Here’s an 18-inch (45-cm) diameter concrete container beside a neighbour’s front porch filled with lemon yellow Himalayan primroses (Primula florindae), double white primroses (P. vulgaris) and dusty rose hellebores (Helleborus hybrids).

Pink and yellow aren’t always a popular pairing, but these were soft pastel shades balanced with clean white blooms, providing a fresh look for a spring container garden. A bonus was the attractive foliage on the primroses and hellebores.

Once the plants finish blooming, the root balls could be carefully teased apart and transplanted into the garden, where they would flower again next spring.

Published: April 20, 2016 | Updated: February 2, 2019

About Beckie Fox

Beckie is Editor of Garden Making. She is a Master Gardener and published author in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

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  1. Lysane Maynard says

    May 4, 2016 at 9:51 am

    Beautiful combo ! I would love to try this at home. Would this arrangement be best suited in a part shade location ? Thank you 🙂

    Reply
    • Beckie Fox says

      May 4, 2016 at 10:08 am

      Hi, Lysane: Yes, I think part shade would be good. Morning sun with afternoon shade if you have it.

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      • Lysane Maynard says

        May 4, 2016 at 10:52 am

        Thank you Beckie 🙂 I am giving this one a try 🙂

        Reply
  2. Jennifer Mark says

    April 21, 2016 at 9:30 am

    That’s a pretty combo!

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