Pansies planted out in troughs 2017

Pansies planted out in troughs 2017

Yesterday, November 2nd, 2017, my wife & I bought four packs of Pansies from a discount supermarket in town. I had wanted 4 packs of Pansies at least to finish off the planting up of the 3 long, white troughs on the floor, up against the balcony railings. Each pack has 10 plants so I had enough plants (with the 6 I had left over from the previous week’s planting) to fill up 3 rows along the length of each one of the troughs.

Crocuses for planting out in the troughs on the balcony 3rd November 2017

A couple of weeks before I had planted up the troughs with Daffodils but they looked far too bare without any plants in them but now, after planting them up with the Pansies, they look 100% better! After I finished putting in the Pansies I put 25 Crocus corms in each trough.

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The Pansies should give some colour during the winter during milder spells until their main burst of colour in late April-May. The Crocuses will probably flower in February-March & their leaves, as they die, will be partly covered up by the Pansies. Then the Daffodils should flower any time from March onwards till the end of April.

Of course, as we know, “the best laid plans of mice & men …”as the saying goes!