Margaret, I forgot where you lived and I was like, "Summer?" We buy pansies here around November and by May they are gone. The heat just gets to them. I lived in Nashville for a couple of years and our apartment had flowers out front, of course. And pansies were always the first thing they would plant. I've seen them survive even with snow on them, which of course, freaked me out. What can I say? I'm a native Floridian!