I love pansies. They flower in Winter and Spring. Few plants do.
The local DIY store had a great deal on them. 18 pansies in cell-packs for $16. Can't beat less than a $1 per plant... I bought 6 flats of them 3 weeks ago. Then it turned nasty outside. When it wasn't raining, it was cold. Or windy. And then we went to DST, so it was dark an hour earlier. I couldn't find a good day to plant them...
But then there was a day good outside, sort of. Up to 54F and not much wind. But then I realized I really needed to sort the colors out.
My sunken patio is a good height for that, so I spent an hour doing that. But then I realized that to plant them "randomly", I needed to have all the colors mixed in the trays where I could easily reach the different ones. Nothing is simple, LOL!
By then it was getting dark. DST is a real change here. Exactly when the DST change happens, the sun path is blow the elevated house west of mine. I get TWO hours loss of sunlight. It gets dark at 3:30 pm and cloudy days make it worse. When I get up and about at 10 am and eat breakfast and read the newspaper by Noon, that doesn't leave much of a day.
But I got them planted. Descriptions and pictures tomorrow...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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