Now is the time! Plant cold hardy pansies to brighten up your perennial garden or dress up the entry to your home. They will last throughout the winter into spring.
Plant for abundance
Plant burgundy pansies along the path to your front door to encourage abundance to flow to your home. Plant the purple or 'blue' variety in the far left hand corner of your back yard.
Types of Pansies
Pansies are a descendant of the viola family. The hardy but delicate viola was cultivated by the Greeks for herbal medicinal use and much later inspired William Shakespeare to write of romance.
Two types of pansies: clear-faced and monkey-faced
The monkey-faced varieties have a dark blotch in the middle of the face. Pansies are available in blue, yellow, brown, white, maroon, and orange. A raised bed is the best place to grow pansies. Native soil works if you enrich it with 2 inches of compost incorporated to 6 inches deep. Plant pansies about six inches apart in the garden. They should be watered every day for five days and ever other day for a week. After that, water twice a week or whenever the soil dries to a depth of 1 inch deep. Two inches of mulch helps conserve water and improves pansy performance.Deer love pansies so don't plant them where the deer can reach them. Your pansies will bloom all winter long, and often last until the weather turns hot.
Edible garden flowers
Both the leaves and flowers of pansies and violas are edible and high in vitamins A and C. The flowers impart a strong flavor and have been used to make syrup, flavored honey and salads. Both the leaves and flowers can be used as a garnish, such as on cold fruit or cream soups. So add them to your vegetable garden!
Pansy plant care
Pansies seldom have problems with insects and disease. If insect or disease problems occur, treat early with organic or chemical insect repellents and fungicide.
If pansies fail to thrive it is often because neither nature nor the gardener provided enough water. Mulching around the pansies with 2 inches of organic material will help conserve moisture, and reduce weed growth.
Water the soil (not the plant leaves) deeply.
Plant them in your veggie garden, plant them for abundance, plant them in pots, just plant them, plant them, plant them! Enjoy!
Plant for abundance
Plant burgundy pansies along the path to your front door to encourage abundance to flow to your home. Plant the purple or 'blue' variety in the far left hand corner of your back yard.
Types of Pansies
Pansies are a descendant of the viola family. The hardy but delicate viola was cultivated by the Greeks for herbal medicinal use and much later inspired William Shakespeare to write of romance.
Two types of pansies: clear-faced and monkey-faced
The monkey-faced varieties have a dark blotch in the middle of the face. Pansies are available in blue, yellow, brown, white, maroon, and orange. A raised bed is the best place to grow pansies. Native soil works if you enrich it with 2 inches of compost incorporated to 6 inches deep. Plant pansies about six inches apart in the garden. They should be watered every day for five days and ever other day for a week. After that, water twice a week or whenever the soil dries to a depth of 1 inch deep. Two inches of mulch helps conserve water and improves pansy performance.Deer love pansies so don't plant them where the deer can reach them. Your pansies will bloom all winter long, and often last until the weather turns hot.
Edible garden flowers
Both the leaves and flowers of pansies and violas are edible and high in vitamins A and C. The flowers impart a strong flavor and have been used to make syrup, flavored honey and salads. Both the leaves and flowers can be used as a garnish, such as on cold fruit or cream soups. So add them to your vegetable garden!
Pansy plant care
Pansies seldom have problems with insects and disease. If insect or disease problems occur, treat early with organic or chemical insect repellents and fungicide.
If pansies fail to thrive it is often because neither nature nor the gardener provided enough water. Mulching around the pansies with 2 inches of organic material will help conserve moisture, and reduce weed growth.
Water the soil (not the plant leaves) deeply.
Plant them in your veggie garden, plant them for abundance, plant them in pots, just plant them, plant them, plant them! Enjoy!
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