Pansies are the perennials popular for adding a splash of color in pot and border displays. Here's how to plant and care for these flowers.

Q: I am getting ready to plant some pansy seeds and want to know the basics. Susan Senecal, Sugar Hill A: Pansies need a constant temperature of 70 degrees in order to germinate and grow strongly.

Growing From Seed Outdoors You can also sow winter pansies from seed outdoors, which is best for milder regions of the country. The best time to do this is late July or early August.

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5. Pansies As with violas (the flowers from which pansies are derived), you can plant pansy seeds in September to enjoy the blooms three months later. They do best in hardiness zones 3 to 8.

In Karachi-like climates, one can sow pansy seeds, ideally, during the months of October to November, and a couple of months earlier in the colder cities of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Flowers: Sow seeds of next year’s biennial flowers, such as Canterbury bells, forget-me-not, foxglove, hollyhock, pansy, sweet William and verbascum.

If it's spring in Minnesota, plant pansies While they're not the only cold-tolerant bloomers, tough, colorful pansies are the best loved.

This time-lapse shows 89 days growing stages of a pansy plant from a seed to flowers. A pansy seed was planted in a pot with potting mix. The seedling took about 10 days to shoot up to the soil's ...