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March is an excellent time to start planting flowers for spring. If you live in a zone or locale that is still likely to see a frost, ensure that you only put in frost-tolerant perennials for now. 

Once the frosts have passed though, and the soil has warmed a little, you can start putting in spring flowering plants if you missed the chance to get ahead in fall.

'Ideally, plan your display for spring a long time in advance, for example spring-flowering perennials like Dicentra, Hellebores, sea thrift, and flowering quince can be planted in the spring for color in a year’s time, or also in fall,' says H&G's garden writer, Drew Swainston.

However, as our Senior Content Editor (Gardens) Holly Crossley points out, most spring plants can be bought now in flower, ready to be planted in borders or containers: 'Violas and pansies are favorite spring flowers of mine and can be bought as plug plants or propagated from seed or cuttings.

Plant them out somewhere sunny after the last heavy frosts have passed – they make gorgeous additions to window boxes and patio conta

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