4 cut flowers you can still plant now for a burst of colour in spring – no, it's not too late, but you'll need to start planting fast

Purple alliums growing in garden next to stone wall.

With spring not quite being here yet and officially lasting for all of March, April and May, there's plenty of time to pop in some bulbs as long as the ground is suitable. Whilst some spring bulbs come back every year, others don't and therefore need to be planted again.

'If your soil isn't frozen solid or waterlogged, you still have time to plant spring bulbs,' says Julian Palphramand, head of plants at British Garden Centres.