Right now in Nashville it's around 45 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill feeling like 35, but just give these pansies a little sun and they look so good. On some other wet very cold day they will retreat and look like something in your compost bin. But they are so worth it when the sun comes out again. And they give us these colors all winter, often lasting into April or May -they don't like a lot of heat. By then you can replace them with the many many choices of annuals available in Spring.
(These pansies are planted in a steel sculpture in very little soil, facing Southeast. They get a half day winter sun. When there's sun. Because they are in a shallow container I do give them occasional water during the fall and winter. Pansies planted in normal beds typically get enough moisture from winter rains and snow to not need supplemental watering.)
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