Growing
For optimum growth, use compost and plant fertiliser or plant food. Preferring sunny or partially sunny spaces, pansies are easy to move about after planting as their roots don't grow very deep and stay in a kind of 'ball'.
My Projects
The Pansy Rainbow
Lovely for showing support for gay pride, or alternatively can just be used to add colour to your garden. Use other plants like herbs for the green colour in your rainbow.
Using flower pots in colours of the rainbow I have selected matching pansies from a mixed batch I bought. These weren't too expensive (I think they were about £10) and the variation was amazing, ranging from white to orange, red, blue and a deep purple. Try lining all your plant pots up in a row, either spreading them down one side of your garden or placing them in a more empty space to add interest.
You Will Need:
- Coloured Plant Pots - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple and Pink (use 1 lighter and 1 darker shade of each colour for a better effect)
- Matching Pansies (buy a mixed batch)
- If you don't have all the right colours, they can be bought individually
- It is possibly to paint the plant pots if you can't get all the colours you need - acrylic paint works well but is not weather proof
- Compost and plant feed/fertiliser
- A trowel (or just use your hands!)
Rockery With Pansy Highlights
I've used leftover concrete slabs piled artistically ontop of each other in a corner of my garden to create a sort of recycled rockery. Obviously this is not as aesthetically pleasing as a more finished-looking rockery, but it does it's job in terms of pleasantly highlighting an otherwise neglected corner of the garden.
You Will Need
- Leftover concrete slabs or a pre-made rockery
- Four matching flower pots
- Four matching pansy plants (all of the same shade)
- Compost
- Plant feed (optional)
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