{"id":135,"date":"2025-12-22T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-gb\/?p=135"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:31:10","slug":"spring-garden-inspiration-tips-blooming-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/latest-news\/spring-garden-inspiration-tips-blooming-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Garden Inspiration \u2013 Tips for a Blooming Season\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Spring garden inspiration with Millboard decking:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the garden awakens from its winter slumber, it&#8217;s a joy to witness its vibrant transformation. From every corner, new signs of life are emerging. Bulb noses are popping up, trees are adorned with blossoms, and flowering shrubs reveal their delightful colours. The unusually warm February has accelerated the blossoming process, with magnolias and other trees flowering four weeks earlier. Native hedges planted with blackthorn will soon showcase their white flowers, while pear and plum trees will join in, adding to the season&#8217;s delight. The blossom will continue into April and May, gradually introducing shades of pink and white, with bird cherry, hawthorn, crab apple, Plymouth pear, sour cherry, rowan and domestic apple.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div data-link=\"false\" class=\"media-object media-content wp-block alignfull\" data-media=\"image\" data-media-type=\"image\" data-media-position=\"before\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\">\n    <div class=\"media-object__inner\">\n                <div class=\"media-object__media img-fit \">\n\n                                    \n                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/MarkLane.jpg.webp\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/MarkLane.jpg.webp 608w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/MarkLane.jpg-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/MarkLane.jpg-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/MarkLane.jpg-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/MarkLane.jpg-100x100.webp 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"media-object__content flex-column\">\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"media-object__header flex-column\">\n                                            <h2 id=\"article-written-by-mark-lane\" class=\"media-object__heading\">Article written by Mark Lane<\/h2>\n                    \n                                             <div class=\"media-object__subheading\">\n                            <p>BBC One Morning Live\u2019s gardening expert and award-winning garden designer.<\/p>\n<p>Malcom Catmur-Neame @ MSL Creative for the photo.<\/p>\n                        <\/div>\n                     \n                                    <\/div>\n            \n            \n            \n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<section aria-label=\"March is an exciting time for gardeners\"  style=\"--gallery--items-count: 1;\" class=\"gallery wp-block alignfull\">\n    <div class=\"gallery__list__wrapper\">\n        <ul class=\"gallery__list list-reset--hard\">\n                        <li data-pattern-part=\"100\" data-image-orientation=\"landscape\" style=\"--gallery--card--column: 1 \/ 13;\" class=\"gallery__card\">\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__inner img-fit\">\n                    \n                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/RHS-Chelsea_2023_22-scaled-1-768x576.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/RHS-Chelsea_2023_22-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/RHS-Chelsea_2023_22-scaled-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/RHS-Chelsea_2023_22-scaled-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/RHS-Chelsea_2023_22-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/RHS-Chelsea_2023_22-scaled-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__caption is-style-typestyle-small is-style-typestyle-meta\">\n                    <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-main\">\n                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/li>\n        \n            <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>March is an exciting time for gardeners, as it&#8217;s the perfect opportunity to start planning and improving your pots and borders. By taking action now, you can ensure that this season and subsequent seasons are filled with the most beautiful blooms. And, of course, you need to clean and tidy your garden before there are a million-and-one things to do. Cleaning paving, furniture and decking is essential to keep them in excellent condition. Maintaining Millboard is easy. Cleaning with a mild detergent and water is typically sufficient. No sanding, staining or sealing is required, a staple need for wooden decks. Exact amounts of cleaning will vary depending on the location of your deck, but generally, cleaning twice a year should suffice. It\u2019s also worth applying the same regime to any cladding you have on walls. In my old garden in Kent, I created a feature wall using Millboard\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/en-gb\/2025\/12\/22\/millboard-decking-and-envello-cladding\/\">Envello Board &amp; Batten <\/a>next to a living wall. Now would be the perfect time to wipe down any cladding and remove any watermarks on my old water feature.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<section aria-label=\"Early-flowering bulbs and late winter\/early spring bedding plants\"  style=\"--gallery--items-count: 1;\" class=\"gallery wp-block alignfull\">\n    <div class=\"gallery__list__wrapper\">\n        <ul class=\"gallery__list list-reset--hard\">\n                        <li data-pattern-part=\"50\" data-image-orientation=\"landscape\" style=\"--gallery--card--column: 1 \/ 7;\" class=\"gallery__card\">\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__inner img-fit\">\n                    \n                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"711\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/edf-1.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/edf-1.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/edf-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/edf-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__caption is-style-typestyle-small is-style-typestyle-meta\">\n                    <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-main\">\n                        Weathered Oak                    <\/div>\n\n                                            <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-secondary\">\n                            Vintage                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/li>\n        \n            <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Early-flowering bulbs and late winter\/early spring bedding plants, such as bellis, violas and pansies will need to be fed. Ideally, start feeding your bulbs and bedding plants as soon as you see the green noses\/shoots and continue to feed until the flowers and leaves have turned brown and shrivelled for bulbs or the flowers have ceased on your bedding plants. Bulbs in pots and containers will be easy to feed with a watering can and some high potash liquid feed mixed in, such as tomato feed, but bulbs in lawns and borders might be a little more awkward. Granular feeds are typically easier to apply in these situations; gently fork into the soil and water in.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the weather and, more importantly, the soil starts to warm up, now is also the perfect time to start planting bare-root roses, deciduous trees and lily bulbs, and sowing seeds. Half-hardy annual seeds such as cosmos, calendula, and cleome can be sown indoors, whereas sunflowers, poppies, and cornflowers can be directly sown outdoors into prepared soil. Remove any weeds and stones, gently work over the soil and rake the surface into a fine tilth. Hardy herbaceous perennials can also be planted now. Consider open, cup-shaped flowers to attract wildlife and grow a range of plants to help with biodiversity. Also, think about adding ornamental grasses to your pots and borders. These add movement to a planting scheme, as the breeze gently catches them. They are great to plant between differing plants or flowers that might clash: simply adding an ornamental grass between the two plants blurs the colours and textures, creating a cohesive scheme.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<section aria-label=\"March is the perfect time to sow sweet peppers\"  style=\"--gallery--items-count: 1;\" class=\"gallery wp-block alignfull\">\n    <div class=\"gallery__list__wrapper\">\n        <ul class=\"gallery__list list-reset--hard\">\n                        <li data-pattern-part=\"100\" data-image-orientation=\"landscape\" style=\"--gallery--card--column: 1 \/ 13;\" class=\"gallery__card\">\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__inner img-fit\">\n                    \n                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Case-Study_Kew-Childrens-Garden_6-768x577.webp\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Case-Study_Kew-Childrens-Garden_6-768x577.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Case-Study_Kew-Childrens-Garden_6-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Case-Study_Kew-Childrens-Garden_6-1024x769.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Case-Study_Kew-Childrens-Garden_6-600x451.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Case-Study_Kew-Childrens-Garden_6.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__caption is-style-typestyle-small is-style-typestyle-meta\">\n                    <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-main\">\n                        Weathered Oak                    <\/div>\n\n                                            <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-secondary\">\n                            Embered                        <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/li>\n        \n            <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>With more of us wanting to know where our food comes from, March is the perfect time to sow sweet peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes indoors or in a greenhouse. Recycle and reuse old plastic containers, like margarine tubs and yoghurt pots \u2013 these make great pots for seeds and young seedlings. Make some drainage holes in the bottom and fill them with peat-free, multi-purpose compost and sow. It\u2019s also essential to consider successional sowing, especially concerning salad leaves, by sowing every two weeks for continuous produce throughout the growing season. Also, think ahead and start sowing indoors winter vegetables, such as Brussels sprouts and cauliflowers: these will be ready to plant out later in the spring. You can directly sow beetroot, carrot and spinach outdoors, as well as early peas and early autumn-cropping kale and autumn cabbage seeds.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<section aria-label=\"March is the perfect time to plant strawberry plants\"  style=\"--gallery--items-count: 1;\" class=\"gallery wp-block alignfull\">\n    <div class=\"gallery__list__wrapper\">\n        <ul class=\"gallery__list list-reset--hard\">\n                        <li data-pattern-part=\"100\" data-image-orientation=\"landscape\" style=\"--gallery--card--column: 1 \/ 13;\" class=\"gallery__card\">\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__inner img-fit\">\n                    \n                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/kamala-bright-6wzgqujM4K8-unsplash-min.jpg-768x576.webp\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/kamala-bright-6wzgqujM4K8-unsplash-min.jpg-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/kamala-bright-6wzgqujM4K8-unsplash-min.jpg-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/kamala-bright-6wzgqujM4K8-unsplash-min.jpg-600x450.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/kamala-bright-6wzgqujM4K8-unsplash-min.jpg.webp 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__caption is-style-typestyle-small is-style-typestyle-meta\">\n                    <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-main\">\n                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/li>\n        \n            <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>If like me, you love fruit, then March is the perfect time to plant strawberry plants, such as \u2018Malling Centenary\u2019 and \u2018Elegance\u2019, apple, pear, plum and apricot trees, as well as rhubarb, such as \u2018Fulton\u2019s Strawberry Surprise\u2019 which one \u2018best-flavoured rhubarb\u2019 in RHS Wisley Trials. For an ornamental plant producing gorgeous, delicious berries look no further than the blueberry. These have scented spring flowers, red autumn foliage, and berries \u2013remember that they need acidic soil, so test the pH of your soil in the garden or plant in a pot or container with ericaceous soil. My favourites are \u2018Chandler\u2019 and \u2018Duke\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<section aria-label=\"I love cooking and using vegetables, fruit and herbs that I have grown myself\"  style=\"--gallery--items-count: 1;\" class=\"gallery wp-block alignfull\">\n    <div class=\"gallery__list__wrapper\">\n        <ul class=\"gallery__list list-reset--hard\">\n                        <li data-pattern-part=\"100\" data-image-orientation=\"landscape\" style=\"--gallery--card--column: 1 \/ 13;\" class=\"gallery__card\">\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__inner img-fit\">\n                    \n                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/christian-mackie-cc0Gg3BegjE-unsplash-min.jpg-768x576.webp\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/christian-mackie-cc0Gg3BegjE-unsplash-min.jpg-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/christian-mackie-cc0Gg3BegjE-unsplash-min.jpg-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/christian-mackie-cc0Gg3BegjE-unsplash-min.jpg-600x450.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.millboard.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/christian-mackie-cc0Gg3BegjE-unsplash-min.jpg.webp 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"gallery__card__caption is-style-typestyle-small is-style-typestyle-meta\">\n                    <div class=\"gallery__card__caption-main\">\n                                            <\/div>\n\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/li>\n        \n            <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>I love cooking and using vegetables, fruit and herbs that I have grown myself. At this time of year, I love purple-sprouting broccoli with roasted almonds and a dash of olive oil. Nettles will start growing, so pick the fresh leaves and make a nettle soup with butter and cream. It tastes \u2018green\u2019 (if that\u2019s possible), velvety and \u2018spinach-y\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"cards-automatic cards wp-block animate alignfull alignwide has-background has-brand-2-background-color\">\n    <div class=\"cards__inner\" style=\"--cards--best-column-fit: 3;\">\n        \n        <div class=\"cards__items\">\n                            <div data-type=\"post\" class=\"media-object g-card animate-element\" data-media=\"image\" data-link=\"true\" data-media-type=\"image\" data-media-position=\"before\" data-orientation=\"vertical\">\n    <div class=\"media-object__inner\">\n                <div class=\"media-object__media img-fit \">\n\n                                                            <div class=\"media-object__media--hover-effect\">\n                            <span class=\"media-object__media--hover-effect__top\">\n                                View                            <\/span>\n\n                            <span 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