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Old March 23, 2009   #1
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Default Its March and nurseries are selling Pansies

I'm on Long island, New York and Home depot is already selling pansies. is it not too early to put them out?
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Old March 23, 2009   #2
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Well, Elliot since you live in Hicksville, Long Island NY if they're selling them now, just ask. (Are these Pansies ready to be planted outside right now?)

Pansies are very cold hardy. If you can dig a hole in your soil right now; then you could plant them. There is a form of Pansies called "Ice Pansies," maybe that's what they're selling. - Just for the record, I think they can be refunded if they're selling them now and they happen to die from the cold.

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They are selling Pansies up here where i am, and i am 2 hours "north" of Toronto, Ontario
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It's actually about time to stop selling pansies here. We use pansies and violas as our winter annuals. It's too hot here to grow them in the summer. I plant mine in October and take them out in April. They won't be bothered by the cold at all. No worries.
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Bought my pansies at that Home Depot sale. They are beautiful and I'm looking forward to putting them in the ground. Pansies will take a lot of cold and come up smiling.
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I love pansies and will buy them now. Thank you all for the advice.
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I bought a 6-pack of violas last year (or the year before?), and this year one plant has reseeded itself among the strawberries. The plant is over a foot wide and has been happily blooming for at least a month. I find that reseeders are much happier and more floriferous than nursery-bought plants. It helps that I don't till my garden, though I do add compost regularly.
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My pansies are coming back do to all of the rain we've been getting, I thought they had died, do to on/off heat/cold weather we had. it could've been drought though. They quite often reseed like crazy!

Violas are a perennial, even in cold weather places.

But I had just put them in the ground in January (this is Texas; after all.)

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I broke down and bought a flat of pansies last weekend.
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