These are my Trailing Pansies. They are a new variety that came out this year. Ordinarily, pansies are cool weather plant that most people plant in the late fall and survive over the winter. These are a hybrid kind that supposed to last the summer. I wanted to at least give them a try anyway. I got this planter as a Mother's Day present because I needed something on the section of siding that looked empty flanking both sides of my garage door. It was perfect...Don't ya think????
Pansies are pretty resilient. All you have to do is pinch off the "spent" blooms. This makes it produce more blooms. Pansies don't like to be dry, they like moist soil and even spritz the foliage and blooms to keep them clean. The blooms are very fragile and crepe-ish, yet vibrant.
If you buy the regular Pansies that are used during the cold weather season, they want to be where there is the most sunshine for the shortened winter days. My Trailing Pansies are on the side of the house that gets hardly any sun during the warm months and they are loving the shade for sure.
On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the most maintenance) I would give Pansies a 3-4. You need to go and pinch the spent leaves about every other day or at the minimal twice a week. And, if you have a dry weather season, you have to water about as frequently.
I think I have found my new replacement for Wave Petunias I can only imagine what my hanging basket would look like if I had used Miracle-Gro soil and fertilizer.
I would forget to go and pinch the leaves off a couple of days in a row.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous flowers. I have not seen the trailing variety. They will look great with long trails of those purple flowers!
ReplyDeleteThose are some really beautiful flowers and I would probably forget to pinch the leaves off as well.
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