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Our Favorite Violas and Pansies

Pansies are old-fashioned favorite flowers that are gaining new popularity. Improved varieties and better hardiness are why more gardeners are buying and planting these cheerful spring bloomers.

The difference between Pansies and Violas: Pansies are Viola hybrids, officially known as Viola x wittrockiana, with a complex ancestry that includes several species. They are often called Johnny jump-ups. Biggest difference between them is the flower size. Pansies have a larger flower face while violas have a small cute face. Both are hardy and showy. Pansies and Violas are considered short-lived perennials but are used as annuals or biennials.

Violas and pansies are very early bloomers in spring to early summer. Then shrivel in the mid summer heat.

They are native to the southern hemisphere. Easy to grow,you will often find them growing in the wild. Pansies, and Violas are all part of a closely related family. Small plants produce a wealth of dainty. clear-faced, fragrant blooms in jewel-like shades; yellow, apricot, blue, scarlet, white and violet. Viola is generally more winter-hardy than the larger-flowered pansy. Viola and Pansies are popular, easy, and fun to grow. Fill an area or entire bed with Viola or Pansies for a striking spring effect! They also are great in windowsills and containers.

Pansies and viola grow easily from seed but take a long time to mature, so they should be started early indoors about 10 to 12 weeks before the last frost date. Press seeds into the surface of the soil and cover to their thickness and not over twice their thickness, as darkness is required for germination.
Covering the pots with black plastic is a good idea. Keep the planting medium damp, and once the seeds have sprouted, (about 14 days at 70 degrees F.) move them to a greenhouse or an area inside with bright light. A week or so before transplanting into the garden, harden the pansy seedlings off by putting them in a cold frame or a sheltered spot outdoors during the day.

LET827 Aalsmeer King Size Mix

Old-fashioned mix with vigorous plants. Cheerful, 2 1/2–3 1/2" bicolor blooms in shades of gold, purple, plum, lavender, rose, and white. Mildly fragrant blooms. A pansy you can use in bouquets, which is unusual.
These plants provide large flowers on long stems ( for pansies ). Plants grow 16-22 inches tall .Harvest when the flowers are starting to open. Stems lengthen over time. Expect a vase life of 5 to 7 days. Edible Flowers: Decorative and edible garnish for salads and desserts with slight wintergreen flavor. While a popular choice for brightening up salad mix, the flowers are also good for candying.

LET805 ColorMax Lemon Splash

Lemon Splash has a great appearance with lighter lemon wings and a bold splash of golden yellow. It shows up well in low light periods so you will see it early in the morning and late into the evening.
Representing the new wave in violas, ColorMax is a giant-flowered viola that is heat tolerant and fills pots easily, even under heat stress where standard violas suffer. ColorMax is a superb autumn performer and a great choice to start the season. This alternative to pansies comes in a number of eye-catching and unique colors that are extremely versatile—perfect for pots, packs, baskets and mixed containers.

LET672 Cool Wave Golden Yellow F1

Yellow Golden Cool Wave is a fast growing, long lasting trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Produces a beautiful yellow-golden bloom.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

LET673 Cool Wave Lemon F1

Clear, buttery lemon blooms show some genetic dark and light shading.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

JB263 Cool Wave Mix F1

Mix of all colors, very cool, very wavelike.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

LET675 Cool Wave Morpho F1

Lucious bicolor yellow and blue blooms simply cover this delightful plant.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

LET676 Cool Wave Purple F1

Produces a beautiful and bold dark purple bloom.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

LET677 Cool Wave Raspberry Swirl F1 ( Spreading Pansy )

Twice the spread, double the color! Raspberry Swirl Cool Wave is a fast growing, long lasting trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Rich, velvety rosy-purple with white and yellow centers.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

LET678 Cool Wave Violet Wing F1 ( Spreading Pansy )

Violet Wing Cool Wave is a fast growing, long lasting trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Yellow centers, with white petals that have dark violet tips.
Wow 'em with Cool Wave – hands down, it’s the fastest-growing, longest-lasting, truly trailing pansy for Spring and Autumn. Cool Wave is a cool-season gardener’s dream.
The best-performing spreading pansy series delivers easy spreading colour for Spring and Autumn, so you can extend your growing and selling season for the popular Wave® brand. More vigorous with the most prostrate habit of any spreading pansy, great in combos and as groundcover.
Superior overwintering hardiness – Cool Wave is the earliest pansy to return in the Spring. Excellent choice for containers, baskets and garden beds. Will overwinter through USDA Zone 5; in cold climates, mulch over Winter to provide added protection. Height: 6 to 8 inches. Primed, ultra clean seeds for easy germination.

JB212 Fizzy Fruit Salad Mix

Smashing combo, has Fizzy Grape, Lemonberry and Fluffy Raspberry. This spreading hybrid pansy has exceptional overwintering ability. Ruffled petals in a wide range of colours bring a dramatic splash of vibrancy to the winter garden. Sow seeds in July and August for blooms from October right through to the following May. They look incredible in containers and hanging baskets, and particularly spectacular in mass bedding plantings. The wide pansy faces, fancy frilled petals, and dazzling colours bring a really special look to any garden. Much needed colour for an otherwise subdued winter palette. Be sure to plant your winter flowering pansies the previous summer.

LET352 Fluffy Ruffle Mix

Fully ruffled, fluffy antique looking large flowers, wide color range, these are a beautiful variety that stands out in the garden or in baskets. Grows only six inches tall and has long blooming season.

LET570 Arkwright Ruby

Violas were grown in the United States dating all the way back to colonial times. They are a wonderful performer, and they so easily establish from Viola seeds. Arkwright Ruby Viola flowers are a dark wine color with a golden center and edging. Fill containers, window boxes and baskets with these glorious little treasures! Red Viola plants grow best in rich, moist, well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter. Use a slow-release fertilizer in the soil if planting Violas in a container. Those grown as bedding plants tend to bloom continuously in regions where the growing season is cool, but they will refrain from blooming as the weather heats up. Grows 6-8 inches tall.

JB257 Clear Crystals Scarlet

If you want to add a touch of drama to your flower garden, start this stunning scarlet variety. Clear Crystals are known for their superb selection of clear colors without blotches. This scarlet Pansy flower is brilliant and it will catch the attention of neighbors and everyone passing by. Pansies are early and free-flowering, and they are also perfect for fall color as well. Either in the border or in containers, Pansy plants are reliable bloomers. They also make nice cut flowers! Pansy care includes deadheading the spent blooms to promote longer blooming. Grows 6-8 inches tall.

LET799 White Perfection ( Viola cornuta )

Grow these treasured favorites from Viola seeds, and enjoy their sweet charm in your flower garden. Viola cornuta, is often referred to as Horned Violet or Tufted Pansy, and they are valued by gardeners all over. This one is a dazzling pure white color with a light, delicate scent. White Violas are often used in flower beds, borders and as ground cover, and they work nicely in hanging baskets and other attractive containers. Grows eight inches tall.

LET353 Matrix Solar Flare

Fire color with more red if cool, more yellow if hot; when weather changes, so does its color. Extra-large flowers on strong, sturdy stems. Produces more flowers per plant than other pansies to create high-impact landscapes and containers.
Low-maintenance series gives landscapers the best choice for uniform color striping, plus the most flowers per plant of any large-flowered pansy.
Attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, great winter color, fragrant flowers, frost tolerant.

LET561 Tiger Eye Red

A mix of mustard yellows and cinnamon brown shades, Tiger Eye has varied dark lines and loops about the flower faces, as if it was the result of an artist's engraving rather than an effortless velvety petal. Blooming in the cool seasons of spring and fall, it is a spritely edging or charming container flower.
Primed, ultra clean seeds.

LET563 Penny Red Blotch

A great new pansy, it offers huge, fragrant, scarlet blooms with a yellow eye are produced on a low, compact plant that flowers continuously throughout the growing season. This hybrid viola as a unique mounded plant habit suitable for a wide range of pot and container sizes. Tolerates more heat and stretches less than other hybrid violas. Root systems are robust for better over-wintering performance. Flowers continuously from beginning to end of season. Blooms are red-scarlet. Plant height is 4-6 inches.

JB086 Admiration Large Flowered ( Viola Cornuta )

Perfect for cutting, Viola Admiration has dark, rich violet blue flowers and long stems. Nothing is sweeter in the vase than Violas! They are commonly called Horned Violets or Tufted Pansies, and they attract bees, butterflies and birds. You can grow Horned Violet Admiration in containers, hanging baskets, or plant the flower seeds directly in your flower garden. Once established, the Viola plants will often become naturalized and will re-seed themselves. Viola care includes trimming the plants back in the heat of summer to neaten the appearance and promote continued blooming.

JB125 Padparadja

1991 AAS Flower Winner. Padparaja (Pa pa ra’ja) is a true orange pansy that retains the orange color under heat stress conditions. The deep orange, pumpkin color, stood out at AAS Flower Trials across North America. Padparadja is named after the rare and valuable orange sapphire originally found in Sri Lanka.
Padparaja can be grown as a flowering bedding plant for spring or fall. The two-inch blooms are produced on stems held above the foliage. In garden trials, Padparaja continued to flower under hot, humid August conditions. The heat and weather tolerance were above average.

D9932 Sorbet Pink Wing

Whiskered white with pink wing, nice delicate look, grows 6 inches tall. Floriferous, with many unusual colors and combinations, excellent seed quality.

D9925 Strawberry Sundae ( Fragrant Pansy )

Exhilarating fragrance, wonderful rose shades with yellow eye, bushy compact habit, for spring or fall.
Delicious rose, strawberry-pink and red shades blended together to give an alternative mixture for pots and patios. Large flowers on short stems tolerate both hot and cold conditions amazing well.

SF378 Ultima Morpho

2002 AAS Flower Winner. This pansy has a distinct bi-color design. The upper petals are mid-blue with bright lemon yellow lower petals and rays or whiskers radiate from the center. Ultima Morpho is named after the Morpho butterfly, which is blue and yellow. A slight variation may occur in the pastel design but this adds to the variety appeal. Recommended for spring or fall gardens, Ultima Morpho proved to be free flowering all season. Mature plants can spread 8 to 10 inches and attain a height of 5 to 8 inches. Excellent performance in containers; maintain adequate moisture levels.
Ultima Morpho is also the recipient of the Fleuroselect Gold Medal award for performance in European trials.

JB114 Viola labradorica purpurea

Commonly called Labrador violet, is a very low-growing perennial (1-3" high) which is typically utilized both for its small, attractive, heart-shaped, purple-tinged foliage (to 1 inch across) and its lavender-blue spring flowers. Flowers appear atop leafy stems in lat spring. Native to moist woods in the northern U.S., Canada and Greenland.
A plant of many uses, mass as a ground cover for small areas. Filler between stepping stones. Leave undisturbed and allow it to spread in native plant gardens or naturalized areas. Rock gardens.
Highly decorative dark foliage, a "Walk on" plant. Perennial, hardy to zone 3.

3737 Imperial Antique Shades

Large 3" flowers are typical of this variety. Held on strong sturdy stems, Imperial Antique Shades is best known for its clean hardy growth and unique color tones from apricot to rose. This pansy coordinates very well with flowering bulbs. The plants have outstanding disease resistance. Several colors in this mix are award winning. Height: 6-8".

1A400 Johnny Jump Up ( Viola cornuta )

One of our favorite flowers to sow around large plants like palm and oak trees in containers as they add color and hold back weeds.
These are also a wonderful selection for parts of your flower beds with poor soil, as they will grow just about anywhere. A compact annual or perennial, these will re-seed easily if given the chance. This variety has been used extensively in floral gardens and has escaped from cultivation to roadsides, fields and waste areas throughout much of the United States.
The vibrant blooms are deep purple and yellow, creating a solid carpet of color for weeks. Prefers partial shade to full sun in rich, well drained soil.
There are so many ways to use the versatile plants, around the base of trees, flower beds, containers, borders.
Keeping the faded blossoms picked will prolong the blooming period.

Johnny Jump Ups are very easy to grow, tolerant of most soil types (including dry soil) and drought resistant. They withstand heat better than most bedding flowers and are perfect for partial shade. They serve a multitude of uses: as a groundcover under shrubs or larger perennials, in borders and rockery, in baskets, containers and tubs.

Seedman Basic Info:
Wow, this plant grows well anywhere in the USA. Grows 7 to 10 inches tall, germinates in about 14 to 21 days. Best soil temperature for germination is 65°F to 75°F.
Best germination if started in early spring, but if you must start them in hot weather, chill the seeds in the fridge for a couple of weeks before sowing. Sowing depth: 1/16". Blooming Period: March through August.

SF274 Brush Strokes ( Viola williamsiana )

Flowers appear as if an artist had taken a fine brush to lay delicate bright stripes on its palette of solid colors. Purple, pink, yellow and light blue striped with white and yellow strokes. Bushy, dwarf plants give outstanding garden performance in summer or autumn displays. Very hardy and overwinters well.
Grows 6 inches tall, blooms in 14 weeks from seed. Low germination, about 70%.

IP274 Fragrant Queen Charlotte ( Viola odorata )

This is a wonderful viola that blooms in later winter to early spring with large, sweetly scented dark blue to purple flowers over a mound of dark green heart shaped leaves. This plant adds fragrance and color when few other plants are blooming. Flowers are great for cutting and are edible, they make great candied flowers or can be eaten fresh.
A perennial for zones 5-9. Blooms in spring-summer of first year only growing about 6 inches tall.

3665 Shangri-La Marina ( Viola cornuta )

This ASS winning Viola cornuta is an early-flowering, mounding viola in a vibrant new color for this type. In trials, the 6 inch tall plants kept a low-growing mounding habit. Colorful and prolific 1¼ inch blooms have light blue petals with a velvety dark blue face that is surrounded by a narrow white border.
Flower color is a consistent deep Marina blue throughout the season. This vigorous frost-tolerant biennial provides a solid mat of fall color until covered with snow followed by a great recovery in spring. Grow in full sun as a low edging in the garden or in hanging baskets and pots.

3470 Penny Mickey

White with orange eye, blue tinged petals, purple wing. Easy to see where the "Mickey" name comes from. This hybrid viola has a unique mounded plant habit suitable for a wide range of pot and container sizes. Tolerates more heat and stretches less than other hybrid violas. Hardy to the 44th parallel, root systems are robust for better over-wintering performance. Flowers continuously from beginning to end of season. Blooms are white with deep purple outer petals and blotches with a yellow eye. Plant height is 4-6 inches and width is 4-6 inches.

IP300 Penny All Season Mix

Mix of Blue, Yellow, Orange, and White shades. This Goldsmith F1 features uniform flowering time, 1" flowers on a compact mound. Grows 6" tall, blooms from seed in 11 weeks.

IP235 Freckles

Novelty white with blue splashes, long lived perennial, grows 8" tall, hardy to zone 4.

3219 Viola Perfection Blue ( Viola cornuta )

Beautiful medium blue color, grows about 6" tall.