Winter pansies

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What's happened to my winter pansies and are they salvageable? I have one planter where they are doing ok and then there's these in another planter.

Dead. Buy some more

No point buying more unless you know why they died so you know it won’t happen again. Was it the soil, your nurture, or defective plants? Any ideas, anyone?

Not Pansies, but my Violas seem to have suffered this autumn probably due to excessive and wet weather this year. I replaced one pot, but the replacements have gone the same way too.

Perhaps it was just bad luck/bad plants? The compost was fresh. I still have some others that I planted at the same time that have survived ok.

Have tiny slugs eaten them off at the crown, perhaps?

The pansy on the right hand side looks quite old - are they from last summer/early autumn? The reason being you can see new leaves starting to form at the base of the stem.

I find pansies are fab in the early Spring, there's a bit of warmth in the sun, and normally improving day light. Any pansies that I try to keep going after the flourish of growth and flowering through the summer (thinking they might overwinter) are always lacklustre. I think they just run out of steam!

I'd wait until Spring when you can buy them in packs in Tesco or Sainsbury, I find them great value and I've had too many pansy failures to try bring them back to life. In our house we say "they've gone bang"