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One has a flower bud just starting. They had full light during daytime but t was autumn/winter natural light.
Thank you. It is shaded for most of the time where they have been planted, which I didn't consider before. They do look healthy enough so Ill just keep an eye on them as the springtime warms everything up and we get a bit more light.
No, don't think you've missed anything here....Sammy is really expecting miracles from these little plug plants. You see so many of these ads showing magnificent plants when in reality, they're extremely misleading, if not a con. To stand any chance of achieving the beautiful plants in the pictures, you'd need to be keeping them in a heated greenhouse for months. I've found plug plants are really more trouble then they're worth and so just spend more and get fewer but decent sized plants.
It just seems a little odd to me that everything else is growing well but not the pansies.
Thank you for your encouragement :-)
I echo the above comments, they'll start to put some growth on once it warms up. The advantage of Winter planting is that they'll be bigger than the plugs bought in Spring, when the temperature starts to rise they'll bounce up. As Graham has said, I would rather spend the money on bigger plants in the first place. The mail order plugs are good for your own garden if you have a greenhouse and time to pot them on but they're not always as cheap as they seem once you factor in the compost, pots, time etc. Local garden centres and nurseries would be a better bet.