Pansies could be the perfect wallflower — quiet, unassuming, blend-into-the-backdrop plants — of the garden. Not for Brenna Estrada, though. She’s researched their history, grown and sold them ...
As A Wandering Botanist, Kathy Keeler has traveling the globe searching for exotic plants and their stories. From Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to the Atacama Desert in Chile, she’s seen plants living ...
It is also called Johnny-Jump-Up and is distinguished from the other pansies by its delicate beauty: the Heart’s Ease is a small pansy with purple, yellow, and white petals. Supplement a dash of ...
The pansy’s cheerful appearance and sweet, subtle scent belie its ability to survive spring freezes, fall cold snaps, and even mild winters. They have endeared themselves to me because they are the ...
There is still plenty of time to plant snapdragons, stocks, alyssum, ornamental kale, dianthus and calendula in containers and flower beds for winter color. But now that we have moved into November, ...
I suppose you have already picked your pansies for the winter garden. But if you are not a fan of the viola clan, know they are among the longest blooming annuals that money can buy. They should be.
The National Garden Bureau dubbed 2017 the Year of the Pansy — a well-deserved distinction for Viola x wittrockiana. Easy to grow, inexpensive and even edible, the now-celebrated annual bedding plants ...
Of all of the early emerging spring flowers, few show up with more vigor, pizazz and bursts of color than the cool weather loving, long blooming pansy (Viola x Wittrockiana). Pansies are cultivars of ...
The ideal planting time for cool-season bedding plants in Louisiana runs from late September through early December. Some do better planted earlier, while others do better planted later in the season.