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  • Winter pansies might be an option
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  •  we had tiny pansies (violas maybe?) in the hanging baskets before and weirdly they died at the end of summer, but migrated and we have had little pansy flowers all over the gravelled drive all winter. They flowered throughout all the snow and frost and it has been so cheerful! They are still going strong. Clearly they decided baskets weren’t for them! 
    I had a pot of viola/pansies do the same with my patio. The originals were two colour purple/white, but the seedlings came out in a while variety of white, purple, mixed, and even the odd yellow one. I loved their spirit to be popping up where they chose, but I also then kept feeling that I needed to weed the patio as they made good friends with all the other much chunkier patio invaders. Sadly the pansies I had planted in the actual flower bed did not thrive at all.
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  • My violas did well in sheltered pots on walls but they also had many pretty babies on the patio and driveway. I love them, such pretty markings. I have creeping violet under a nasty spiky pyracantha so I just weed it out when it starts to invade. 

    The narcissus sound good. I think they look better in clumps anyway. Once they have died down I re home them elsewhere in the garden and spread them out a little more. 
  • milann
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    The daffs sound lovely. I planted lots in pots near the back doors where I can see them from my chair. The squirrels have had them from a couple of pots…I shared them out so all pots had the same so I want to nip to Morris@ns to get some flowering ones to plant out. They’re growing between pretty purple violi (or is it violas) which have been in flower since October….they’ve certainly earned their keep. 👍
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  • jwil
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    Your garden sounds lovely!
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