The botanical name for the pansies we grow is Viola x wittrockiana. There are many varieties, and blooms vary from 2 to 4 inches. Newer varieties may be a solid color. Advertisement.

Viola is the genus for both plants. Pansy is a common name for violas with larger flowers. What’s the difference between a pansy and a viola?

Viola is the genus for both plants. Pansy is a common name for violas with larger flowers. What’s the difference between a pansy and a viola?

Viola is the genus for both plants. Pansy is a common name for violas with larger flowers. What’s the difference between a pansy and a viola?

Of the 500-some varieties of the genus viola, they grow 60 different pansies and another 20 varieties of violas. “We grow up to 100,000 flats of pansies with 72 plants each in a given year.

Today there are more than 250 cultivars of Viola x wittrockiana, a.k.a. the pansy, in just about every color you can imagine. So make a date to start a spring tradition with your own little ...

Viola is the genus for both plants. Pansy is a common name for violas with larger flowers. What’s the difference between a pansy and a viola?

Pansies are violas like sunshine, rich organic soil and don't want to dry out. Violas can even make it through winter where the temperatures stay above about 10F.

Pansies, the most colorful of our cool-season annuals ... By the first half of the 1800s, breeders were crossing Viola species, and William Thompson, gardener for Lord Gambier of Iver, ...

There are different types of pansies, many of them viola hybrids (Viola x wittrockiana).The popular Johnny jump-ups (Viola tricolor) and Viola 'Jackanapes' are closely related, similarly hardy ...

The cooler winter weather of southern California is approachingat last, and what better flowering plant to give us mass color thanthe delightful, multicolored pansy? They are used in flowerbeds ...

Viola is the genus for both plants. Pansy is a common name for violas with larger flowers. What’s the difference between a pansy and a viola?