{"id":841,"date":"2012-09-01T00:49:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T07:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2012-09-01T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T20:57:10","slug":"organic-winter-pansy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/organic-winter-pansy\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Winter Pansy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/copy-of-pansy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15 aligncenter\" title=\"copy-of-pansy\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/copy-of-pansy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Winter pansies won&#8217;t get eaten by aphids it is too cold. Pansies don&#8217;t need fertiliser to put on a good show in fact you don&#8217;t want lush growth in winter.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Helpful Hints for Better Winter Pansies<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pansies face the sun so view them from the south to avoid looking at their backs.<\/li>\n<li>Low winter light means white and pale colours show up far better than the dark colours.<\/li>\n<li>Smaller flowers will be more plentiful and will hold their shape, larger flowers tend to flop<\/li>\n<li>A mulch of bark chippings or gravel will help prevent mud splashes<\/li>\n<li>Most winter pansies are best in autumn or spring but RHS trials recommend &#8216;Nature&#8217; White, Ocean or Yellow, Ultima Silhouette, Panola Daffodil and Skyline Yellow Blotch.<\/li>\n<li>Plant in pots or in sheltered sunny positions for the best show<\/li>\n<li>It is too late to plant seeds this season but retailers have a good selection on sale at the moment. I have bought some cheaply from Aldi and as I update this post I can report they did\u00c2\u00a0 winter flowering species proud. They came back well even after hard frosts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winter pansies start to come into their floral own <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/purple-pansy-to-buy\/\">in February and March<\/a>.<\/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\"> Try Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 for winter pansy seeds and plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter pansies won&#8217;t get eaten by aphids it is too cold. Pansies don&#8217;t need fertiliser to put on a good show in fact you don&#8217;t want lush growth in winter. Plants are revitalised by faint sun even after a hard frost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}