Gurgaon Gardener: Pansy, Pansy Violet or Viola, Majestic Giants II

Friday, April 11, 2014

Pansy, Pansy Violet or Viola, Majestic Giants II

Majestic Giants II extra-large flowered pansies have long been the preferred choice for fall and spring markets. This pansy series maintains its huge flower size of 4 inch/10 cm blooms under warm conditions with excellent overwintering and rebloom in the spring.

(Viola x wittrockiana 'Red with Yellow eye') bears fun, ruffly flowers of soft yellow edged in shiny-red. It grows 8 inches tall and wide.

From tiny, cheerful Johnny jump-ups to the stunning 3-inch blooms of Majestic Giant pansies, the genus Viola has a spectacular array of delightful plants for the spring garden. They're must-haves to celebrate the first days of spring since they don't mind cold weather and can even take a little snow and ice!


(Viola x wittrockiana 'Fizzy Lemonberry') bears fun, ruffly flowers of soft yellow edged in grape-purple. It grows 8 inches tall and wide.

They're pretty planted in masses in the ground, but also cherished for the early color they bring to pots, window boxes, and other containers. By summer, pansies bloom less and their foliage starts to brown. It's at this time that you'll have to be tough and tear them out and replant with warm-season annuals, such as marigolds or petunias. But that's part of their charm -- they are an ephemeral celebration of spring!

(Viola williamsii 'Velocity ') produces soft silvery, blue-purple flowers on a mounded, compact plant to 8 inches tall and wide.

(Viola williamsii 'Velocity Baby Blue') produces soft silvery, blue-purple flowers on a mounded, compact plant to 8 inches tall and wide.

Growing Pansies

Light: Sun, Part Sun

Plant Type: Annual, Perennial

Plant Height: 4-9 inches tall

Plant Width: 4-12 inches wide

Landscape Uses: Containers,Beds & Borders

Special Features: Flowers, Fragrant

(Viola x wittrockiana 'Fizzy Lemonberry') bears fun, ruffly flowers of soft yellow edged in grape-purple. It grows 8 inches tall and wide.

Pansy Poetry found in internet and would like to share...

A celebration of Fall and Winter's beautiful flower, the pansy.

When the canopies of oaks strong
And maples noble whisper along,
In Pollacked piles collect discarded
Exhaling summer sun and youth unguarded.

When gentle hands travail with rake
Yet still the earth does not forsake
Nature's goal and sacred duty
To reflect her Gardener's beauty.

Nodding heads, white, purple, yellow
Laughing faces, joyful fellow.
Locked in coolly pensive thought
Hardy pansy, forget-me-not.

Against the cold, she stands defiant,
With grace and fashion, winter's giant.
Shrugs off frost and icy dew,
Promise of a world anew.

I do not think I shall ever see
A flower so fair as the dear pansy.
While Spring is fresh and Summer enchanting,
Wise gardeners know, "Fall is for planting."