One of the best loved and most alluring of all garden flowers. Plants are compact, producing blooms on long sturdy stems. The beautiful blooms are large, colorful, delicately fragrant, and come in a wide variety of colors. Pansies are ideal in cities as they are pollution resistant. Excellent in beds, borders, edgings, pots, and window boxes.
Planting Information:
When and Where to Plant: Select a sunny location (light shade is best in hot Summer areas) with rich, moist, well-drained soil and plant outdoors after all danger of frost is past. For earlier blossoms, start indoors 10-12 weeks before last frost. May also be started during midsummer or blossoms the following Spring. Cultivate soil and firm over seed.
Care: Keep soil moist and feed monthly. Pick faded blooms frequently. Where winters are severe, provide a light mulch after the ground freezes.
Seed Variety: Pansy, Swiss Giant Mix
Germination Time: 10 - 20 Days
Planting Depth: 1/8 in.
Seed Spacing: 1/2 in.
Maximum Height: 6 in. - 8 in.
Thinning Height: 1 in. - 2 in.
Space After Thinning: 6 in. - 9 in.
Light Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade