The ISU Horticulture Club will sell fall-blooming pansies for the rest of the week in the rotunda of Curtiss Hall.

The sale will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday. Megan McConnell, president of the Horticulture Club, said the money raised at the plant sale will go toward two Horticulture Undergraduate Student Scholarships.

One scholarship is awarded to either an incoming freshman or sophomore. The other scholarship is awarded to either an incoming junior or senior.

The scholarships are awarded each year and are currently set at $200 each. McConnell, senior in horticulture, said only members of the Horticulture Club are qualified. The scholarships will be awarded at a banquet this spring.

The idea to cultivate pansies came from Amanda Groth, committee chairwoman for the club.

“We were looking for an alternative to mums, which is what we have sold for the last few years,” said Groth, sophomore in horticulture. “We thought it would be nice to do something different.”

While most pansies grow in the spring and summer, the Horticulture Club is selling pansies that grow in the fall and winter.

“Normally, pansies are an early-season annual plant, and the summer heat kills them,” McConnell said. “We were looking for something different for students to learn about.”

The pansies the Horticulture Club is selling survive best in fall and winter, she said.

Groth said if the pansy is planted in a protective location, it will bloom again in the spring and bloom lightly during the summer. Next fall, a new pansy will have to be planted.

The pansies were ordered as plugs, which are seedlings, and planted in August, Groth said.

“Cultivating the plants was actually an easy process,” she said. “This is a crop that can be turned around in about five weeks.”