{"id":6710,"date":"2015-03-03T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T14:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2015-02-28T03:37:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:37:52","slug":"growing-pansy-all-year-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/growing-pansy-all-year-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Year Around Pansies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"purple pansy \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4281469568\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4281469568_238eb1a678.jpg\" alt=\"purple pansy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smiling face of a pansy greets the gardener during most season of the year.<br \/>\nPansy is a <strong>thoughtful<\/strong> flower as thoughtful is what the name Pansee means in French. In the wild form it is tricoloured and often called Heartsease and is a member of the Viola family.<br \/>\nThere are many varieties to choose from including 46 on our T&amp;M list below.<\/p>\n<h2>Growing Pansy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Great and quick results can be achieved from plug plants or seedlings.<\/li>\n<li>Treat as annuals or biennials even though they may survive longer.<\/li>\n<li>From seed, sow late winter\/spring or mid-late summer 1.5mm deep in good seed compost <strong>excluding light<\/strong> as darkness helps them germinate.<\/li>\n<li>Germination usually takes 14-21 days at 19-24C no warmer or germination suffers.<\/li>\n<li>When seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant and grow cool.<\/li>\n<li>Gradually acclimatise to outdoor conditions for 10-15 days before planting out after all risk of frost.<\/li>\n<li>Prefers sun or part shade in borders or containers .<\/li>\n<li>The flowers are edible and useful to colour a salad.<\/li>\n<li>Summer sowings of <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=841\">winter flowering pansies <\/a>should be\u00c2\u00a0 planted out in autumn or early spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Useful Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhs.org.uk\/index.htm\">Royal Horticultural Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/pansy-growing-tips\/\">Gardeners tips<\/a> or search in the box center right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=pansy=&amp;lbc=thompson-morgan&amp;uid=557154991&amp;ts=custom&amp;w=Pansy&amp;af=&amp;isort=score&amp;method=and&amp;view=plaintext&amp;cnt=300\"> Thompson Morgan <\/a> seeds available to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smiling face of a pansy greets the gardener during most season of the year. Pansy is a thoughtful flower as thoughtful is what the name Pansee means in French. In the wild form it is tricoloured and often called Heartsease and is a member of the Viola family. There are many varieties to choose from including 46 on our T&amp;M list below. Growing Pansy Great and quick results can be achieved from plug plants or seedlings. Treat as annuals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/novice-gardeners\/growing-pansy-all-year-around\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novice-gardeners","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}