If you want a real pansy display next spring, don’t depend on the basketfuls you’ll find at the hardware dealers. Instead, grow your own from seed or buy young plants from a specialist this fall. The advantage to you is simply this: you can pick the colors you need to harmonize with your spring garden … Read more
The pansy is of easy culture, blossoms profusely for months, and maybe had in many colors from delicate pastel shades to rich, dark tones, some solid colors, others blotched, penciled, or veined. There are varieties so ruffled that they appear almost double. Those with “faces” seem all the more friendly. Fresh, new crop seed is … Read more
The first important step toward success with pansies is to purchase quality seeds from a reliable company. One cannot hope to produce top-notch flowers unless a seed of top quality has been planted. Giant Swiss, Super Swiss Giants, Super Maple Leaf mixture, Trimardeau mixture, Englemann’s Giant, and Dwarf Super Swiss mixed are the strains most … Read more
Do you settle for a box or two of pansy plants each spring and then bemoan the fact your flower budget doesn’t allow you more? Pansy plants purchased from the florist are expensive, but you can easily grow your sturdy plants at only a fraction of this cost. Just imagine the pretty edgings, beds, and … Read more