Carol DM
There are many varieties and colors of pansies to choose from. I like the purple and yellow. But a combination of colors can be so beautiful in the garden. Waiting on spring to plant more of these beauties.
The pansy may be treated as either an annual or a perennial, depending on your climate. However, most gardeners treat this plant as an annual because it prefers cool weather and gets too leggy in the heat of summer. There hasn’t been much success in producing heat-tolerant pansies that can adequately survive hot weather.
Pansies are surprisingly hearty in cold weather, though. They’ll survive a frost, bouncing back from even single digit temperatures. If the blooms wither in the cold, the plants will often stay alive to bloom again, which makes them a great flowering plant for fall and early winter color.
I have often wondered why they are called pansies, they are so tough they can be planted in the winter.
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Have you tried planting ponies in your garden?
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Usually works out in a garden thanks Carol, lovely flowers
Unfortunately I don’t have a garden, but I like them.
We plant these flowers on our graves, dear Carol
That is a great idea, I never thought of that before.
As lovely as they they would never thrive in our kind of weather, some nursery greenhouses have pansies but they die in a few days where the temperature is not regulated.
That is too bad, they are very hardy in my area.
we tend towards marigolds (my wife’s favorite other than tulips).
I like marigolds as well, they have to be planted every year and they keep some insects away. I like tulips and always look forward to seeing those too.
i had them planted in the back yard in Indiana. We haven’t so far in Maryland.
we have been talking about adding a flowering bush –
Pansies in our garden are wild. They surprise us every year as they reappear in spring.
I did not know they grew wild. How cool to see surprises.
They are such tough little flowers! I didn’t use to pay much attention to them, but during the last few years they have become a symbol of spring for me.
Yes they are indeed. And the variety of colors are almost endless.
They are beautiful flowers and resistant to difficult weather conditions!
Thanks I love them as well.
Pansies are beautiful and very durable flowers. I have planted on the grave.
That is a wonderful idea!
Forgot to add these blooms were in my garden last year.
And they are not “ponies”. We so need the edit button back. 🙁