Garden flowers in February: sowing, planting and flowering

What is sown, planted and pruned in February, and which annuals, summer bulbs and flowering shrubs are in flower, depends on your last spring frost. Below is the typical city of each climate — or open your own city’s frost dates.

Garden flowers in February, by climate:

• Late spring: last frost in late April or May (Veliky Novgorod): Snapdragon, Purple coneflower, Delphinium, Pansy, Sweet pea
• Moderate: last frost in April (Mannheim): Sweet pea, Busy Lizzie, Edging lobelia, Black-eyed Susan, Moss rose
• Mild: last frost in March (Nagoya): Moss rose, Ageratum, Marigold, Nasturtium, Scarlet sage
• Warm winter: frost only now and then (Ravenna): Ageratum, Busy Lizzie, Moss rose, Chrysanthemum, Freesia and 6 more
• Southern hemisphere: spring from September (Salta): Marigold, Nasturtium, Ageratum, Zinnia, Petunia and 3 more

Dates are for the typical city of each climate by the Greenly calendar’s rules: sowing and planting from the last spring frost (frost-hardy plants about three weeks before it, the rest a week after it once the soil is warm), autumn planting a month before the first autumn frost; annuals and summer bulbs flower after the card’s days to the first flowers for the card’s length of flowering, until the first autumn frost; flowering shrubs by the card’s days after the last spring frost. Perennials and autumn bulbs flower once established, so their flowering is not dated here.