pansies in the NorthEast

[Elliot]

the nurseries are all displaying pansies for sale. I've never grown them. How long do they flower? Is it strictly and early spring flowering plant or can I get more mileage out of it?

Elliot

LI, New York

[gssgarden]

Elliot, it's definatly a spring time flower. It doesn't like the heat. They can withstand a little frost but they don't like a good freeze so check the long term forecast. When I planted them on L.I. (Hauppauge), I put them in a part-shade area and they bloomed until late June. But when July came around they started to look spent and replaced them with Impatients. You can also re-plant them towards the fall, around late Sept, early Oct. Hope this helps.

Greg

[Elliot]

Thanks greg

I live near you in the Plainview area. We do well with impatiennts . I plant all of my tomatos in buckets and then use the soil the next year for the inpatiets. Now what do you do with the pansies in July and august? You dig them up? What do you do with them?

Elliot

[Elliot]

Greg, where do you buy your plants from on Long island? I buy from Hicks and order by mail from chileplants.com. Hicks of course is a class act. Someone told me to check out cheap sams

Elliot

[Tomstrees]

You may want to see if garden centers near you have perennial pansies.

They just started offering them a few years ago around here.

http://www.essortment.com/all/pansies_rnbi.htm

~ Tom

[Elliot]

This is ironical. In the link you sent me, it mentioned an Andre Viette nursery in Virginia. I knew Andre 35 years ago. We were both founders of a group called the Friends of Planting Fields.

[Tomstrees]

Thats pretty cool !!!

~ Tom

[maryinoregon]

Elliott, I love pansies. I plant them in the spring, deadhead sometimes and let them go. In the hot summer they will pout and not grow as much, then come back in the fall. I let them go to seed and sometimes they will come out through snow. We don't have much snow here, nor many hard frosts. But pansies will certainly take the cold quite well.

[kelleyville]

I have always thought pansies were to be planted in fall, they grow some but little, they hang on through the winter where winters are mild or even have light snow, then they rise up full force in spring. I usually plant the violas instead of pansies, smaller flower. Around June in Georgia if the weather is normal they start going to seed if you dont keeep them watered well and dead headed. I have kept them year round if I pay real close attention to them .

Kelley

[Elliot]

Originally Posted by maryinpnw

Elliott, I love pansies. I plant them in the spring, deadhead sometimes and let them go. In the hot summer they will pout and not grow as much, then come back in the fall. I let them go to seed and sometimes they will come out through snow. We don't have much snow here, nor many hard frosts. But pansies will certainly take the cold quite well.

Where do you live

[ContainerTed]

When I was stationed at Lakenheath in England in the late 70's, I had pansies in the front planting beds in the winter. I have pictures somewhere that show them with snow on them and they still kept on blooming. Now we had snow, but not a hard freeze.