Plant cherry trees as a pass-through to a garden entrance.

Purchase tulips already budded and repot them in a colorful container.

Web Exclusive: 7 Pinks and Coordinating Plants:
Plentiful Pink
Expand your palette of rosy blooms with these selections.
Trees and Shrubs:
1. Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana)--Upper, Middle, Lower, and Coastal South
2. Dwarf Flowering Almond (Prunus glandulosa 'Sinensis')--Upper, Middle, and Lower South
3. Loropetalum chinense--Middle, Lower, and Coastal South
Perennials:
4. Sweet William ( Dianthus barbatus)--Upper, Middle, Lower, and Coastal South 5. Cheddar Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus)--Upper, Middle, and Lower South
6. Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea Foxy strain)--Upper, Middle, Lower, and Coastal South
7. Astilbe (Astilbe x arendsii)--Upper and Middle South

Perfect Pairings
Pink can be tricky to marry with other flower colors. Various shades of blue and purple offer good-looking options. White is a safe choice, and silver foliage plants such as Artemisia 'Powis Castle' and dusty miller make stunning companions.

There's no more joyful palette than the full spectrum of pink. These are the flowers you want to dive into, flowers you want to wear, and flowers that stop you in your tracks. The first wake-up call of the new season resounds with the ‘Okame' flowering cherry trees. As days grow longer and warmer, a progression of blooms entices you to take time and enjoy the show. Here are some of our favorites.

'Okame' Flowering Cherry Spring's firstborn petals arrive on these earliest-blooming cherry trees. Billows of blooms dress the upright physique of 'Okame' flowering cherry (Prunus 'Okame') in a cameo-colored cloud. This fast-growing tree matures at 25 feet tall and 20 feet wide and proclaims the season's arrival in all Southern regions. Two other well-known flowering cherries, 'Kwanzan' (P. serrulata 'Kwanzan') and Yoshino (P. x yedoensis), continue the spectacular show later in the season.

Tulips While much of spring's floral outpouring flirts with flamboyance, tulips personify statuesque, elegant ladies. If you didn't plant bulbs in the fall or your region is too warm to enjoy them in the garden, purchase pots that have been coaxed into bloom. Keep the flowers cool and the soil slightly moist to prolong the show. When done, tuck them into the Upper South garden, take a gamble on them coming back in the Middle South, and add them to the compost pile in the Lower and Coastal South. 'Pink Impression' and 'Menton' produce single blooms in the soft pink spectrum. 'Angelique' delivers double, pale rose-colored blooms.