Here are the pansies in their normal state - in a moisture-retaining enclosure. This is how it says to store them on the packet for the first couple of weeks of their lives - it’s not that I’m cruel and like to see them suffer, honest!

The two straggly mixed pansies which grew in the pantry are looking in a very sorry state and I don’t think they are going to make it. However, every cloud has a silver lining and this one brings some new fresh healthy-looking shoots. I therefore believe that removing them from the pantry and exposing them to sunlight has been better for them than what it said on the packet.

The green and black pansies meanwhile are growing healthily, and most of them have this cute “Y” shape to them.