21 Gardens That Have Us Itching for Spring

It's hard to imagine spring in the South without the iconic evergreen bushes.

Self-taught gardener Linda Vater grows over 800 tulips every spring.

Each spring at Moss Mountain Farm in Roland, Arkansas, the stars come out twice—once at night, like everywhere else, and again in the daytime, when innumerable daffodils illuminate hills and meadows from horizon to horizon.

French hydrangeas are favorite plants that Southerners love to clip and share with friends and family members.

Azaleas, flowering dogwoods, and live oaks laden with Spanish moss create an iconic picture of spring in the South.

Garden designer David Morello went rogue and replaced his ho-hum lawn with a collage of flowers and shrubs

Stalwart annuals and perennials such as purple coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, angelonias, Persian shields, SunPatiens, coreopsis, lamb's ears, mandevillas, and Shasta daisies offer nonstop color throughout the hot summer.

For an inviting entrance into a cottage garden, plant a basket with caladiums, angelonias, Madagascar periwinkles, and million bells.

At Burnside Farms in Virginia, you can harvest fresh bouquets right from the field. Visitors are encouraged to pick tulips with the bulbs attached.

Gardener and desiger Henry Johnson used plants and structures to give garden rooms floors, walls, and ceilings.

This house's symmetrical facade is paired with a welcoming, neat-as-a-pin front garden for tremendous curb appeal.

These spectacular perennials regularly reach 8 feet— and taller!

Elegant tulip blooms grace spring gardens with a variety of colors and forms.

Climbing 'New Dawn' roses atop shade-giving pergolas explode into bloom.

No bulbs are easier for container growing in the South than beloved daffodils.

Loose borders such as these appear more dramatic when sandwiched between hedged and tree-form evergreens.

Adding height, dimension, and color, climbing roses fill voids more gracefully than most other plants.

Blooms surround this backyard coop.

Climbing roses accentuate the architectural details of this Atlanta garden.

When Ron Ernst bought this 1891 two-story town house in Thomasville, Georgia, the house came with a bonus—a beautiful little walled garden out back that he could share with his customers.

Even though there's plenty of room for kids to play, it doesn't look like a soccer field.