Its March and nurseries are selling Pansies

Elliot · March 23, 2009

I'm on Long island, New York and Home depot is already selling pansies. is it not too early to put them out?

Polar_Lace · March 23, 2009

Well, Elliot since you live in Hicksville, Long Island NY if they're selling them now, just ask. (Are these Pansies ready to be planted outside right now?)

Pansies are very cold hardy. If you can dig a hole in your soil right now; then you could plant them. There is a form of Pansies called "Ice Pansies," maybe that's what they're selling. - Just for the record, I think they can be refunded if they're selling them now and they happen to die from the cold.

~* Robin >a Native New Yorker!<

Penny · March 23, 2009

They are selling Pansies up here where i am, and i am 2 hours "north" of Toronto, Ontario

shelleybean · March 23, 2009

It's actually about time to stop selling pansies here. We use pansies and violas as our winter annuals. It's too hot here to grow them in the summer. I plant mine in October and take them out in April. They won't be bothered by the cold at all. No worries.

maryinoregon · March 23, 2009

Bought my pansies at that Home Depot sale. They are beautiful and I'm looking forward to putting them in the ground. Pansies will take a lot of cold and come up smiling.

Elliot · March 23, 2009

I love pansies and will buy them now. Thank you all for the advice.

habitat_gardener · March 25, 2009

I bought a 6-pack of violas last year (or the year before?), and this year one plant has reseeded itself among the strawberries. The plant is over a foot wide and has been happily blooming for at least a month. I find that reseeders are much happier and more floriferous than nursery-bought plants. It helps that I don't till my garden, though I do add compost regularly.

Polar_Lace · March 25, 2009

My pansies are coming back do to all of the rain we've been getting, I thought they had died, do to on/off heat/cold weather we had. it could've been drought though. They quite often reseed like crazy!

Violas are a perennial, even in cold weather places.

But I had just put them in the ground in January (this is Texas; after all.)

~* Robin

Penny · March 27, 2009

I broke down and bought a flat of pansies last weekend.

March 23, 2009	#1
Elliot Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Hicksville, New York Posts: 503	Its March and nurseries are selling Pansies I'm on Long island, New York and Home depot is already selling pansies. is it not too early to put them out?

March 23, 2009	#2
Polar_Lace Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Z8b, Texas Posts: 657	Well, Elliot since you live in Hicksville, Long Island NY if they're selling them now, just ask. (Are these Pansies ready to be planted outside right now?) Pansies are very cold hardy. If you can dig a hole in your soil right now; then you could plant them. There is a form of Pansies called "Ice Pansies," maybe that's what they're selling. - Just for the record, I think they can be refunded if they're selling them now and they happen to die from the cold. ~* Robin >a Native New Yorker!< __________________ It's not how many seeds you sow. Nor how many plants you transplant. It's about how many of them can survive your treatment of them.

March 23, 2009	#4
shelleybean Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Virginia Beach Posts: 2,648	It's actually about time to stop selling pansies here. We use pansies and violas as our winter annuals. It's too hot here to grow them in the summer. I plant mine in October and take them out in April. They won't be bothered by the cold at all. No worries. __________________ Michele

March 25, 2009	#8
Polar_Lace Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Z8b, Texas Posts: 657	My pansies are coming back do to all of the rain we've been getting, I thought they had died, do to on/off heat/cold weather we had. it could've been drought though. They quite often reseed like crazy! Violas are a perennial, even in cold weather places. But I had just put them in the ground in January (this is Texas; after all.) ~* Robin __________________ It's not how many seeds you sow. Nor how many plants you transplant. It's about how many of them can survive your treatment of them.

March 23, 2009	#3
Penny Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 948	They are selling Pansies up here where i am, and i am 2 hours "north" of Toronto, Ontario

March 23, 2009	#5
maryinoregon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Oregon Posts: 361	Bought my pansies at that Home Depot sale. They are beautiful and I'm looking forward to putting them in the ground. Pansies will take a lot of cold and come up smiling.

March 25, 2009	#7
habitat_gardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: California Central Valley Posts: 2,543	I bought a 6-pack of violas last year (or the year before?), and this year one plant has reseeded itself among the strawberries. The plant is over a foot wide and has been happily blooming for at least a month. I find that reseeders are much happier and more floriferous than nursery-bought plants. It helps that I don't till my garden, though I do add compost regularly.

March 27, 2009	#9
Penny Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 948	I broke down and bought a flat of pansies last weekend.