Friday, November 13, 2009

What should I do with Winter flowering pansies?

Once they have finished flowering?

What should I do with Winter flowering pansies?
If the weather doesn't get too hot, you could still have pansies past May. I have them in planters on my deck and beside my driveway, and I just plant petunias or impatiens in with them, and as the others get big and it gets hot, the pansies just go. If I remember, I pull them out, but the other plants usually just cover them up anyway.





If you keep them dead-headed, they will bloom as long as the weather is still fairly cool.





Winter-flowering pansies is really a misnomer, something retailers thought up to sell them in the fall. Pansies are pansies. There really is no difference between winter pansies and spring pansies.
Reply:leave if you have room after a short rest most will reflower
Reply:Plant them in the garden and they will flower again in the Spring and maybe in the Autumn too.
Reply:If they are in the ground - nothing at all. I love pansies for their low-maintenance.





If they are in a pot inside...I'd keep taking care of them inside, and then plant them out in late spring. (Plant them out earlier, and they might die of shock, as they aren't acclimated to the winter, having been in a house.)
Reply:pansies are a winter flower. dead head them during the winter but once spring gets here they are pretty much done. pull up and throw away and plant something else for the summer


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