Johnie Jump Ups

[Nyboy]

Snow is still around, but nursery had Pansies in. Had to get 2 flats for window boxes at work. Know I am taking a chance but need spring bad !!!!.

 

[Smart Red]

I totally understand. They should do okay, but window boxes are easy enough to blanket if the temps return to single digits. They are pretty darned hardy.

 

[Nyboy]

Red Even easier they are in holders so can just lift up and bring in side.

 

[Smart Red]

Perfect!

 

[thistlebloom]

Sounds like a good spring fix! I usually get the first primroses that appear in front of the grocery stores to put in the iron flower pot holder by the front door.

 

[ninnymary]

You done good Nyboy. That's cheap therapy!

Mary

 

[PhilaGardener]

Sure sign of Spring !

 

[Nyboy]

@ninnymary thats the way I see it going up to 57 today!! By end of week all snow should be melted.

 

[ninnymary]

@ninnymary thats the way I see it going up to 57 today!! By end of week all snow should be melted.

Yay! Nyboy, how big is your garden in the city? Do you garden in containers? What do you grow? I realize that I don't know that much about your garden.

Mary

 

[so lucky]

Last spring at Bigmart, I was standing in line in the garden section when two ladies stood behind me, each with a couple of hanging baskets of pansies. Gorgeous colors. I remarked on how pretty they were, and asked if they did anything special to prolong the bloom, or did they intend them to just be temporary? They looked at each other, puzzled, and said they didn't know; won't they last all summer in the baskets? I backpedaled a little, not wanting to appear to be running off customers, but the ladies got the message, and put the pansies back on the rack.
I wasn't trying to be ---anything----just curious. I felt a little bad in retrospect, since it was none of my business. After all,"buyer beware" and all that, especially from Bigmart.
(But really, pansies do not bloom all summer here. And in a hanging basket, they probably wouldn't even live all summer)