Bring color to your garden this year with these spring gardening tips and the help of local gardening centers

If you’re looking for a new hobby or a small house project to keep you busy, why not start planting flowers that will bring spring color into 2021? If you’re a gardening novice, don’t worry—the Miami Valley is full of experts to provide you tips and several gardening centers to give you inspiration.

One of the first steps is to decide what flowers you are wanting to plant. A popular spring flower is the weigela shrub. The weigela is a light pink and white bloom that screams color. This flower blooms best when it is soaking up lots of sunshine but can tolerate some shade mainly in very hot climates. A great spot to plant this flower is near a porch or walkway.

Other spring favorites are pansies and violas. These flowers can bring a wide variety of shades of purple, deep blue, white and yellow to your garden that will make your neighbors. This flower can tolerate frost or a small freeze so you can start planting them early in the spring. A great spot to plant these is in between other flowers or on a flat flower bed since they stay close to the ground.

To get started, a great way to start is to visit your local gardening center. Grandma’s Gardens, located at 8107 N. state Route 48 in Waynesville, has been around since 1979. At Grandma’s Gardens you can find all different kind of flowers to choose from and have a helping hand on which ones would be best suited for each season.

A second spot you can look for inspiration and advice is Siebenthaler’s. Siebenthaler’s has been around for 150 years and has two locations—one at 2074 Beaver Valley Road in Beavercreek and another at 6000 Far Hills Ave. in Centerville. It has been passed down from generation to generation of the Siebenthaler family while keeping the same goal in mind—to provide high quality plant material and unmatched customer service.