4 cut flowers you can still plant now for a burst of colour in spring

With spring not quite being here yet and officially lasting for all of March, April and May, there’s plenty of time to pop in some bulbs as long as the ground is suitable. Whilst some spring bulbs come back every year, others don’t and therefore need to be planted again.

‘If your soil isn’t frozen solid or waterlogged, you still have time to plant spring bulbs,’ says Julian Palphramand, head of plants at British Garden Centres.

We tend to think that we can’t plant bulbs or sow seeds out of a certain timeline, and yes it does depend on the weather, but if you are a few weeks later here and there go for it and see what happens!