Is your garden ready for a seasonal refresh?
Late spring is the perfect time to brighten up your outdoor spaces with fresh color, creative accents, and easy upgrades that instantly make your landscape feel more inviting. Whether you’re refreshing a patio, flowerbed, or front porch, these simple ideas will help transform your garden into a beautiful retreat you’ll enjoy all season long.
QUICK REFRESH #1: ADD PERSONALITY WITH GARDEN DÉCOR
One of the easiest ways to refresh your outdoor spaces is by adding decorative accents that bring movement, texture, and personality to your garden. Garden décor helps create focal points while making your landscape feel unique and welcoming.
Bird Houses & Feeders
Invite nature into your landscape with decorative bird houses or feeders. Not only do they add charm and character, but they also help create a lively garden atmosphere filled with birdsong and movement.
Fountains & Water Features
Add a relaxing touch with a fountain or small water feature. The sound of flowing water instantly creates a peaceful environment while adding visual interest to patios, entryways, and flowerbeds.
Wind Chimes
Add soothing sound and extra personality to your outdoor space with decorative windchimes. Perfect for patios, porches, and garden spaces, windchimes create a relaxing atmosphere with every breeze while adding movement and charm to your backyard retreat. For beautiful designs and rich, calming tones, explore our collection of WindRiver® windchimes this season.
Garden Stakes & Sculptures
Bring your garden to life with colorful wind spinners and decorative garden stakes. These eye-catching accents add movement to your landscape and look beautiful paired with flowers and greenery.
Fill empty spaces with artistic garden décor like metal sculptures, decorative animals, or rustic-inspired pieces. These accents can help tie your landscape design together while adding year-round style.
QUICK REFRESH #2: REFRESH YOUR SPACE WITH CONTAINER GARDENS
Container gardens are one of the simplest ways to update your outdoor spaces without a major project. They’re flexible, easy to move around, and perfect for adding instant color to patios, porches, and entryways.
Mix Pottery Styles & Sizes
Create visual interest by combining different planter sizes, textures, and colors. Large statement pots paired with smaller containers can instantly make a space feel layered and professionally styled.
Swap Plants Seasonally
One of the best parts of container gardening is how easy it is to change things up throughout the season. Refresh containers with new blooms, trailing plants, or tropical accents for an updated look anytime.
Use Containers to Fill Empty Spaces
Brighten bare corners, stairways, or underused areas with colorful container arrangements. Containers are also perfect for adding color to small spaces where traditional flowerbeds may not fit.
Add Texture & Height
Combine upright plants, filler blooms, and trailing greenery to create full, balanced containers with dimension and movement.
QUICK REFRESH #3: PLANT ANNUAL FLOWERS FOR INSTANT COLOR
Nothing refreshes a garden faster than vibrant annual flowers. Annuals provide continuous blooms throughout the season and are an easy way to add bold color to flowerbeds, containers, and borders.
Cora® XDR Vinca
Cora® XDR Vinca thrives in sunny landscapes and delivers bright blooms from spring through fall. These low-maintenance flowers are perfect for adding dependable color to flowerbeds and containers.
Zinnias
Zinnias are a garden favorite for their bold blooms and pollinator-friendly appeal. Their bright colors attract butterflies and bees while adding cheerful energy to sunny spaces.
Begonias
For shady areas, begonias provide lush foliage and eye-catching flowers that brighten darker corners of the landscape.
Pentas
Classic seasonal favorites like Pentas offer long-lasting blooms and vibrant color that instantly freshens up garden beds and patio planters.
Need help planting? Our Pick & Plant service makes it easy to refresh your garden without the effort. Simply choose your favorite plants in-store and our team will handle the planting for you, so you have more time to enjoy!
QUICK REFRESH #4: CREATE VERTICAL COLOR WITH HANGING BASKETS
Hanging baskets are a quick and effortless way to add color and dimension to your outdoor spaces. Their elevated placement draws the eye upward and helps create a lush, layered look.
Try Mixed Baskets
Mixed hanging baskets filled with colorful blooms and trailing greenery create a full, overflowing look that makes a big impact. If you are feeling creative, we carry a variety of baskets and coco liners so you can plant your own designer mix!
QUICK REFRESH #5: UPGRADE FLOWERBEDS WITH LAYERED PLANTING
If parts of your landscape feel empty or unfinished, layered planting is an easy way to create a fuller, more polished appearance.
Start with Height
Place taller plants or shrubs, like Texas Sage, toward the back of flowerbeds to create structure and depth.
Add Mid-Level Color
Fill the middle of beds with colorful annuals or leafy foliage plants to create fullness. Lantana is a great choice to carry your color through fall!
Finish with Low Growers
Use spreading plants or trailing flowers along edges to soften borders and create a lush, finished look.
FEED YOUR PLANTS FOR THE BEST BLOOMS
Late spring is when your garden really begins to take off, and feeding your plants regularly can make all the difference in keeping blooms vibrant and foliage healthy throughout the season. Consistent feeding helps encourage bigger blooms, stronger roots, richer foliage color, and longer-lasting seasonal beauty.
At Calloway’s Nursery and Cornelius Nursery, our premium plant food line includes specialized formulas for flowering plants, tropical plants, trees, and blooming shrubs to help your entire landscape thrive.
Not sure which formula is right for your garden? Ask one of our Texas Certified Nursery Professionals for personalized recommendations during your next visit!
SHOP WITH EASE
At Calloway’s Nursery and Cornelius Nursery, we’re here for all your gardening needs this season. Explore our selection of seasonal flowers, pottery, hanging baskets, garden décor, and more to refresh your outdoor spaces for late spring.
Visit your neighborhood store and let our Texas Certified Nursery Professionals help you create a garden you’ll love all season long!
Late Spring Gardening FAQs: Flowers, Containers, Watering & Garden Refresh Tips
Simple updates like adding colorful annual flowers, hanging baskets, container gardens, fresh mulch, and decorative garden accents can instantly refresh your outdoor space for late spring.
Popular late spring flowers for Texas gardens include Cora® XDR Vinca, Zinnias, Pentas, Lantana, and Begonias. These plants thrive in warm temperatures and provide long-lasting seasonal color.
Container gardens typically need more frequent watering than in-ground plants, especially during warmer temperatures. However, watering needs can vary based on recent rainfall, temperature, sun exposure, and container size. Check containers regularly and water when the top inch of soil feels dry, adjusting your schedule as weather conditions change.
Trailing plants like Sweet Potato Vine, Cora® Cascade, and Ivy pair beautifully with colorful flowering plants in hanging baskets. Mixed baskets with upright, filler, and trailing plants create the fullest look.
Layered planting is one of the easiest ways to create fuller flowerbeds. Use taller shrubs in the back, medium-height perennials in the center, and low-growing annuals or trailing plants along the edges for a balanced, lush appearance.
Most flowering plants benefit from regular feeding every few weeks during the growing season. Our Calloway’s Premium Flower Food should be applied every 30 days. Consistent fertilizing helps encourage stronger roots, healthier foliage, and longer-lasting blooms.
Yes! Container gardens are perfect for patios, balconies, porches, and small outdoor spaces because they add flexible color and style without requiring large flowerbeds or landscaping projects.
Our Pick & Plant service allows you to choose your favorite flowers and plants in-store while our team handles the planting for you, making it easy to refresh your garden with professional-looking results.
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