Top Ten Plants March 2025

The beauty of hyacinths is that you can enjoy their beautiful, scented flowers both inside the house and in your March 2025 garden. This highly scented cultivar has unusual, handsome, dark purple flowers that look stunning planted next to orange primula. If growing in the house, plant it outside after flowering finishes, and it should re-appear the following year.

• Flowers from January to March
• Hardy
• Grows to 30cm tall and 10cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil
• Full sun
• Exposed

Crossed between Daphne bholua and odora, once mature, this compact cultivar will produce masses of wonderfully scented flowers. These can be enjoyed from now until April. Be warned; Daphne hates having their roots disturbed, so make sure you’re happy with its position when planting!

• Flowers from March to April
• Hardy
• Grows to 120cm tall and 90cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil
• Part shade
• Exposed

Continuing the winter scent theme, this plant is a wonderful addition to the winter garden. Its pretty, small, creamy-white flowers fill the air with a soft, sweet fragrance through the winter months. The flowers appear before the leaves, so it’s a good idea to plant a low-growing clematis, such as ‘Alaina’, next to it. This will provide floral interest during the summer months.

• Flowers from December to March
• Hardy
• Grows to 250cm tall and 200cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil
• Full sun
• Exposed

An evergreen bushy clematis that produces a mass of creamy white flowers in early March 2025. It’s happy growing in a partly shaded spot. The soil should remain moist during the summer months and well-drained over winter. The good news is that no pruning is necessary. Mulching around the base of the plant now with a slow-released balanced fertiliser will help keep the vine looking good.

• Flowers from March to April
• Borderline hardy
• Grows to 400cm tall and 200cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil that stays reliably moist
• Full sun or light shade
• Sheltered

A compact, large shrub/small tree whose stems become covered in spectacular-looking clusters of deep pink, pea-like flowers this season. Followed by deep green, glossy leaves which turn lovely shades of yellow during the autumn months. Taller plants may need staking when first planted until established. Water in well on planting and carry on with the regular watering for the first year after planting. A fantastic March 2025 plant.

• Flowers from March to April
• Hardy
• Grows to 300cm tall and 250cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile, moist soil
• Full sun or light shade
• Exposed

This deciduous shrub is extremely adaptable. It can be trained against a wall or fence or left to develop its naturally widely spaced branches. At this time of year pretty, deep apricot-pink flowers suddenly appear along its bare stems. These turn into edible, greenish-yellow colour, quince-like fruit.

• Flowers from March to May
• Hardy
• Grows to 150cm tall and 150cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil
• Full sun or light shade
• Exposed

These low-growing plants are one of the earliest perennials to come into flower. They produce sprays of funnel-shaped flowers above flat rosettes of spotted decorative leaves. ‘Opal’ throws up strong stems of soft sky-blue flowers during the late winter or early spring months. These offer a much-needed source of pollen and nectar for hungry pollinating insects in March 2025.

• Flowers from March to April
• Hardy
• Grows to 25cm tall and 30cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil
• Sun to shade
• Exposed

If you’re looking for a tree for a small garden in March 2025, June Berry is the perfect choice. It has delicate, star-shaped spring flowers, a flush of young bronze leaves maturing to dark green, and purple-black berries in early summer. It has a light and airy form, perfect for planting early flowering woodland-type perennials underneath.

• Flowers from March to April
• Hardy
• Grows to 400cm tall and 250cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile soil
• Full sun
• Exposed

Bergenia are undemanding, evergreen, tough plants that, once established, are drought-tolerant. They make great ground cover or edging of flower border plants. Best planted en masse, the plant produces pretty sprays of bell-shaped white flowers in early spring. The flowers turn shades of pink as they mature, and leaves develop a reddish flush during cold winter spells.

• Flowers from March to April
• Hardy
• Grows to 25cm tall and 30cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile, moist soil
• Full sun part shade
• Sheltered

These easy-to-grow, evergreen herbaceous perennials look particularly attractive in March 2025. The plant produces attractive, attention-grabbing, lime-green flowers with ‘red eyes’ above handsome, red-streaked leaves. Its compact shape makes it a good choice for small gardens. Remove flower stems after flowering to promote the formation of fresh flower stems. Best to wear gloves when handling as the milky sap exuded from cut stems/leaves is potentially a skin irritant.

• Flowers from March to July
• Hardy
• Grows to 75cm tall and 75cm wide
• Well-drained, moderately fertile, moist soil
• Full sun, light or full shade
• Exposed