Note to Self: Pansies

[patinagle16]

This happens to me every year.  The home stores and greenhouses where I shop are 1500 feet lower in elevation than my house, so by the time I'm ready to plant pansies, they've moved on and are only selling petunias.

I did buy a few pansies in February and put them out.  They sort of struggled through the cold spring, but being hardy did not croak.  They really took off around the beginning of May, though, and they're flourishing now.  

So - self, buy some pansies in February and keep them in the (unheated) sun room/greenhouse until the equinox or later.