Is your spring garden blooming yet? How about your spring fire escape? We've rounded up ten of our favorite spring gardens—in the city, in the country, and in between—from our Gardenista Gallery. Let the drooling commence.
If you're not yet greeted by real tulips outside your window, browse the spring blooms from the Gardenista Photo Gallery—a collection of nearly 4,000 inspirational images—to help pass the time. (Because, after all, does a watched tulip ever bloom?)
Above: In late spring, Pink phlox is in full bloom in a reader's garden in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The site of a renovated farmhouse dating from the 18th century, the garden even features a cornfield (look carefully, behind the phlox). Keep exploring the garden's nooks and crannies in A Secret Garden: Spring Comes to Connecticut. Photograph courtesy of Michael Leva.
Above: Spring in the city. A Fire Escape Garden by Erin Boyle.
Above: Designer Neisha Crosland's garden is planted with deciduous herbs mixed with 'Black Parrot' tulips and 'Purple Sensation' alliums for color. The dark purple tulips appear first, and the lighter alliums second. Learn about the planting scheme from Crosland's gardener, in A Purple and Green Planting Scheme: Neisha Crosland's Spring Garden. Photograph by Christine Chang Hanway.
Above: On her Brooklyn balcony, cookbook author Marie Viljoen grows violets...and mint, and other volunteer herbs. See her tips in 10 Secrets for Growing an Urban Balcony Garden.
Above: Gardenista contributor Clemmie Hambro worked rotted manure into her garden's dense clay soil last autumn, to great result in spring. Read more in An English Gardener's Diary: Spring at Last. Photograph by Clemmie Hambro for Gardenista.
Above: Wisteria greets guests on the front stoop at English professor Sophie Gee's townhouse. Photograph by Nicole Franzen.
Above: Harriet Rycroft of Whichford Pottery in Warwickshire, England, gives us her hard-earned tips to planting a successful container bulb garden. "A big pot needs to look good for months," says Rycroft. "It needs good foliage as well as good flowers." Read more of Rycroft's expert tips in DIY: Potting Up a Whichford Pot. Photograph by Harriet Rycroft.
Above: Gardenista contributor Kendra Wilson introduces us to the Snake's head fritillary—a bulb with a unique checkerboard pattern and a habit of growing in vast meadows. Kendra points us in the right direction for planting our own Snake's head meadow (including a mini-meadow if you don't have the land to spare). Learn more in How to Make a Meadow of Snake's Head Fritillaries. Photograph by Kendra Wilson for Gardenista.
Above: Narcissus, anyone? Spring comes to Michigan in Landscape Architect Visit: A Classic Lake Michigan Summerhouse by Kettelkamp & Kettelkamp.
Above: It's never to late to Train a Wisteria Vine Not to Eat the House.
Find more flowers in Landscape Architect Visit: A Classic Lake Michigan Summer House by Kettelkamp & Kettelkamp; Garden Visit: Sarah Raven's Perch Hill; and, on Remodelista, Consider the Lilac.