Growing Pansy Flowers: Care Tips, How to Plant and Best Seeds. Published Jan 08, 2022 at 7:00 AM EST Updated Mar 11, 2022 at 10:52 AM EST. By Tom Fish . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member.

There's a reason these hardy blooms are a seasonal favorite. Pansies, the happy little flowers with "faces" in the center of their blooms, are part of the violet family. They prefer cooler ...

How to Plant Winter Pansies Outdoors. If you're planting winter pansies in the ground, choose an area that gets at least six hours of sun and has well-draining soil with a lot of organic matter ...

Plant your bulbs to the required depth, and then plop in a pansy between each bulb. That way, once your bulbs are done blooming, the pansies will take over and help disguise fading bulb leaves.

Pansies and violas are cousins and look very similar except for the size of the flowers. Violas tend to be smaller, although there are varieties of violas that are now almost as big as a pansy.

Check the soil moisture before watering your pansies to prevent overwatering. Using a watering can or hose with a gentle spray, water around the base of the plant to avoid getting the foliage wet, ...

Pansies can be planted right now regardless of the weather. They shrug off the cold, frost and snow well into the winter months. A little-known fact is that most pansy varieties can be perennial ...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a pansy as (I'm trying to be politically correct) a nonmacho male. The implication is that a pansy can't handle stress of any kind and will wilt under ...

By planting pansies now, while you can still get a trowel in the ground, you'll get to see pansies blooming on those sunny days in February just when you're wondering if spring will ever come.