Winter Pansies - am i too late?

Hi!
I believe I may have accidentally left it a tad too late to sow my winter pansy seeds this year? Am I right?

I have a feeling i'll be popping to a local GC and getting some established plants at this rate...

 

I think it is too late and they aren't expensive to buy in garden centres and supermarkets. When I tried growing them a few years ago I had bad luck with germination so now I always buy trays of young plants.

 

I sowed mine about a month ago and have now pricked them out. They are about 1in high now. I used seed I had collected myself and germination was good. They don't like it too hot to germinate in my experience. So sowing them now they would germinate OK, but with cooler weather soon they may be a bit slow to get going to be good sized plants for planting out.