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Pansies (and related Johnny-jump-ups) are charming, small, cool-weather flowers. They come in many colors, with a variety of markings and flower sizes. They are grown as cool-season annuals and often self-sow. They can be single, clear colors with no markings. The most common types of pansies have a dark center called a face. Johnny-jump-up flowers look like small pansy flowers, often with slender black lines radiating from the center. Pansies have an extremely wide color range including red, purple, blue, bronze, pink, black, yellow, white, lavender, mahogany, apricot and orange. Some pansies have a sweet scent. They are most fragrant at early morning and dusk. Pansies are used for color massing, edging, containers and window boxes during the fall, winter and spring. Pansies thrive in cool weather. They will bloom any time that the temperature is above freezing. Their peak bloom is in spring. They fade and should be discarded with the start of hot summer weather.
Pansies (Viola x wittrockiana): There are more than 250 cultivars of pansies. Most of the cultivars are part of a series. A series consists of several cultivars that vary in color but share qualities such as hardiness, form, markings and so on.
Johnny-Jump-Ups (Viola cornuta, Viola tricolor): Johnny-jump-ups have much smaller flowers than pansies. They flower heavily and are more heat-resistant than pansies. Johnny-jump-ups are ideal for planting around bulbs and larger flowers.
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Mar 24, 2006
Unless the home gardener has ample time, it is so convenient to get rooted, blooming plants at any local garden center, greenhouse or nursery usually at a modest cost of $10-$15 for a whole flat. In the days of my 'youth' they were always sewn by hand in early spring. Nowadays everything is 'instant this/instant that', so why not instant annuals? Here is an offspring of one I bought in an 'instant' annual flat, and, yes it's true; it is a re-seed! Along with the Johnny-Jump-Ups, they readily re-seed themselves. Just keep an eye out for the tiny plants in spring.
