If you want to have flowering pansies in your garden in spring, you should plant them in autumn and then protect them from frost.
Pansies are the classic in the spring garden and many hobby gardeners ask themselves the question: When can you plant pansies? When is the best time?
Plant in autumn - but protect from frost
If you want to have pansies in your garden in spring, plant them early in the previous autumn. This allows the pansies to grow in sufficiently. This early planting also ensures that the pansies can no longer be pushed out of the ground so quickly in the winter frost because they have already had enough time to grow. If you want to give the plants additional protection, cover them with twigs of spruce or fir to achieve optimal protection against frost.
Planting pansies in boxes and bowls
If the pansies are to flower in boxes or bowls the following spring, planting in the spring is sufficient. The right time to plant pansies in boxes and other planters is up to around the beginning of March, and the selection in horticultural businesses is also particularly large at this time, so that the colors in the container can still be very intense in spring.