Mid-October, November In Louisiana Is Time For Planting Pansies, Violas
October 20, 2014 | 1 min to read
HAMMOND, La. – The ideal planting time for cool-season bedding plants in Louisiana runs from late September through early December. Some of our common cool-season flowers prefer the earlier planting dates, and some do better with the later planting dates.
Pansies and their dwarf cousins, violas, prefer planting after the temperatures have cooled off some. You see pansies and violas in garden centers starting in early October. It is typically best to wait until mid- or late October to plant them. But they can be planted through November and even into December.
Pansies continue to be our most popular landscape flower for late fall through early spring, but violas are gaining more market share and are being used more in home landscape plantings. If you’re interested in violas, you should seriously consider planting the Sorbet series, which are Louisiana Super Plants.
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