Buttercup (Ranunculus)
Category Gardening
A colourful flower perfect for spring preparation! The buttercup provides a delightful variety of colours for any springtime garden and is a favourite among garden enthusiasts. With winter almost here, it’s time to start thinking about additions for your garden come spring and begin preparing. Take a look at the reasons why we have awarded buttercups with their own spotlight this week.
• Buttercups are multi-petaled flowers providing a bold, vibrant splash of colour to your garden.
• They are available in a huge variety of colours including white, pink, blush, bright yellow, golden yellow, orange, and bright red.
• The buttercup flowers last for up to six weeks, giving gardeners beautiful colour for a long time.
• Buttercups grow at the top of strong leafless stems, making them ideal for cutting and flower decoration.
• The stems of the buttercup grow to between 30cm to 45cm long.
• The buttercup will bloom in early to mid-spring in warmer climates or early to mid-summer in colder climates.
• Buttercups are indigenous to Asia but have spread through to Europe.
• These beautiful flowers will grow well in full sun or semi-shaded areas, giving options to where gardeners would like them to be planted.
• Buttercups require medium soil moisture.
• Whether you wish to grow them in a container, the center of a flower bed or use them as a border plant, the buttercup will thrive in all these areas of the garden.
• Buttercups are a usually treated as annual plants and thrown away after the flowers have wilted, however, in mild areas the buttercup can come back and bloom year after year.
• To plant a buttercup, soak the corms or claws for an hour and plant about 15cm deep and 20cm apart.
Buttercups provide a colourful and romantic addition to any garden and allow garden enthusiasts a wonderful opportunity to grow a delightful and unique plant. These easy to maintain plants require little TLC and give much delight while they are blooming, whether you grow them in a beautiful pot or a flower bed, to be cut for flower arrangements or to grow year after year, the buttercup is a definite flower choice for your garden.
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