You love pansies and can't get enough of them? Then it's time to collect seeds and multiply them yourself. It's not hard at all either.
With their range of colors from white to red to dark blue and yellow and their long flowering period from spring to summer, pansies are among the classics in gardens and public green spaces. Especially in spring they provide the first splash of color after a long winter and are therefore often given as a spring greeting.
Now you have to buy new pansies every year. At least that's what many think. But this is not the case. If you don't want to buy new pansies every year, or if you have particularly beautiful varieties in your garden and want more plants from them, you can also propagate them with a little skill and patience. It's not difficult at all.
How to propagate pansies
Depending on which varieties bloom and when, you can propagate pansies in both spring and autumn. Then proceed as follows:
➤ Step 1:
When summer pansies have withered, you can remove the seeds from the inflorescences.
➤ Step 2:
Then let the grains dry well in a closed, dry container. You can then either sow the seeds directly on the spot or plant them in pots. Reading tip: Sowing pansies - this is how you do it right.
➤ Step 3:
After they have opened up in the bed, you have to separate the flowers. The plants that you have grown in the pot, on the other hand, should be in their intended place in the garden by mid-October at the latest. They are frost hardy and then bloom in spring.
For spring propagation, however, you must sow the seeds you have removed in seed trays in February and then transplant the plants outside in May.
By the way:
Since pansies are so-called F1 hybrids, i.e. breeds, self-propagated plants usually do not grow as large as the mother plants. They can also differ in color from the "original plant".