Nurseries are filling with flowers in preparation for the spring planting season

Spring is here and colorful flowers fill the greenhouses at Hawthorn Gardens Nursery in Hawthorn Woods.

As the long, cold winter is slowly replaced by sunshine and warming temperatures, you might be tempted to start buying flowers and beautifying your yard and garden. But Matt Huff, the nursery's general manager, said it's still too early to plant most flowers outside.

"What most folks are doing is planting cold crop vegetables, like cabbage and lettuce. And then for flowers in this cool weather, you can use pansies, violas, and snapdragons," Huff said.

Instead of planting, he suggests using this time to start prepping the soil by cleaning out the flowers beds and adding peat moss or mushroom compost.

Historically, Mother's Day is thought to be the last possibility of frost. For what it's worth, there was frost last year May 16.