These tips for how to grow and care for pansy flowers will help with keeping your plants blooming longer as you wait for some other spring blooming plants to grow.
They like a soil pH of 5.8 to 6.2
Water and fertilizing needs for pansies
If you plant pansies in the fall, the rainfall in winter will be more than enough to satisfy their needs.
Depending on where you live, and the type of pansy that you plant, it can behave like an annual, a perennial (giving two years of bloom like a foxglove does) or a perennial.
However, like many plants that self seed, the new plants are not likely to look like the original parent plant.