Add Color to Your Landscape during Winter

Winter color pansies…

What a wonderful break from the grays and browns of winter. Pansies are available in a multitude of colors to brighten your landscape through the colder months. To get the most out of pansy displays, we at AA Tex Lawn take many steps that we feel help our flower beds to be their best.

1. When we prepare the beds we make sure that the soil is loose, but not too loose. Since pansies grow during the season that irrigation is typically off, loose soil helps them to retain the correct amount of moisture.
2. We also use an organic fertilizer which helps to give the plants a steady, slow feed. This encourages the plant to grow and build strength during those warm days we have here in the south.
3. We water a systemic pesticide into the beds. The plants will absorb this through the roots and take it up into the leaves and stems. The pesticide will control the aphids that show up when we have unseasonal warm spells.
4.  We also use a fungicide and liquid fertilizer in our tank mix.
5. We try and fertilize about every 10 days for the first month to 6 weeks. Our goal is to get as much growth as possible before the very cold weather sets in.

If you start with the right base, you will get the most out of your winter gardens. Here's hoping we all see the bright spots during the winter's cold!

Thank you!

The AA Tex Lawn team