With spring approaching and your gardening tools calling, it’s the time of year again to think about the many different kinds of flowers you can plant in your garden. You can choose brightly colored flowers to add beauty to your garden or attract birds and butterflies to your garden with certain flowers that offer them sustenance. Here is a quick flower guide to get you started.

For bright colors, some popular types of flowers to plant are petunias, cosmos, sunflowers and zinnias. To attract birds and butterflies to your garden, opt for flowers that offer them sustenance in the form of nectar and food, like sunflowers, coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) and butterfly flowers (Aesclepias tuberosa). Or, perhaps you are already happy with the choice and mix of your garden’s focal point flowers. Then, you can think about adding a border of flowers to frame your garden. There are as many suitable flowers for creating a border as there are for the focal flowers. Some popular types of flowers for borders are sunrose, English daisy, goldentuft, santolina and lavender.