Cool weather pansies bring a breath of summer to your garden Nothing could be finer than to look out your window on a cold winter day and see the happy colors of pansies. Those wintertime pansies will be the ones you plant now - in your gardens and containers. And they will still be blooming when the daffodils and tulips pop up. October is the prime time to plant cool-loving pansies. The nippy fall air is just the tonic for getting pansies off to their best start.
Pansies like to bask in sunny rays streaming down on rich soil.
Place them where they won't drown in winter rains but be sure to keep them watered when it's dry. If your pansies get leggy looking, just lightly trim them back. This year's local pansy market will feature the Baby Bingo series. Sky Blue - azure blue blooms. Midnight - dark purple upper petals, medium blue lower petals, a deep purple face and yellow eye.