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“Little White Snowdrop” by Amanda Turner – Printable Poetry

“Little White Snowdrop” by Amanda Turner

Little white snowdrop just waking up,
Violet, daisy, and sweet buttercup,
Think of the flowers that are under the snow,
Waiting to grow!

And think what a number of queer little seeds,
Of flowers and mosses, of ferns and of weeds,
Are under the leaves and under the snow,
Waiting to grow!

Think of the roots getting ready to sprout,
Reaching their slender brown fingers about,
Under the ice and the leaves and the snow,
Waiting to grow!

No seed is so small, or hidden so well,
That God cannot find it; and soon he will tell
His sun where to shine, and His rain where to go,
Making it grow!

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How To Grow Planters Full Of Pansies

I love pansies. We have planters full of them every spring and a new batch every fall. So from the first weekend in April through June and from mid-September to November, our deck is full of pansy color. Over the years, I’ve learned the secret of how to grow pansies.

It took me a few years to really figure this out, but there is a secret to getting small pansy bushes exploding with color in your planters that goes beyond just using the right potting mix.

The best part is that it is not difficult and takes no extra tools. It costs nothing extra.

The Secret of How to Grow Pansies

Here is the simple but profound secret.

You must prune back all the flowers as soon as you plant them.

You definitely do not want to remove all the flowers when you’ve been waiting for months and months through the long, cold winter (or depressingly hot, humid summer) to see your lovely flowers again.

But it works.

After David puts them in the planters and pots, we’ll leave the flowers on for a day or two at the most just to enjoy a bit of color. Then all the flowers get pruned back so there are no flowers for about a week to ten days.

But after that?

It’s a colorful explosion that continues for weeks.

How to Grow Pansies and Have Planters Full of Pansies 3

Pruning Pansies for More Flowers

Why does it work? Because all of the energy in the plant goes to growing the plant, not keeping the flowers alive. It makes for very hardy pansy plants that give off multitudes of gorgeous flowers for weeks to come.