Flower Highlight - Pansy (Pansies)

Welcome to the first instillation of a series that I am creating titled 'Flower Highlight'. I intend on exploring different varieties of flowers that have been or could be grown as well as soliciting knowledge from the folks at Permies. I don't have a developed knowledge of many flowers so I hope this will serve as a tool for learning! Anywho, lets get into it.

Pansies in pots

Flower Name

Pansy, Garden Pansy

Flower Info

From what I have read, pansies are a hardier flower that can be grown with success in USDA zones 2-9. The flower has a long blooming period provided it has plenty of sun exposure. I think that it is neat that pansies are technically a perennial but tend not to fare well in the heat. I find that kind of surprising with the flower's love of sunlight! I have not tried growing the flower from seed, but I have heard conflicting information on the level of difficulty in being successful growing them.





Do you grow pansies? Do they have any uses outside looking beautiful? Any good stories out there?

This year, I am planning on making a few potted arrangements with pansies and bulb-based flowers. I have a local greenhouse that has some really impressive starts so I'm 'cheating' this year with avoiding the germination process.

Where I live folks find the pansies for their color during winter.

They will also survive a freeze.

@TimothyNorton

Germinating flower seeds seems to be next level super powers! I sow and sow veggies after sowing flowers and then remember, oh my! There might be flowers here. haha! I would definitely love some quality starts - hope they go great for you!

pansy flowers are edible! that’s always worth some extra points!

This weekend had an hour spent potting up some Pansies.

Pansies in pots on a front porch

Once when I was a kid my mom had a little gardenbox full of pansies on the porch stoop.  The next spring I was laying in the grass across the front yard and was thrilled to find a lone and very happy pansie bloomed in the grass!

I love their beautiful little "faces".  Thanks for letting us know they're edible too!  Its fun to add flowers to salads, and I hear that deep frying flowers is tasty, sometime this year we need to try it.

All related violas and violets are not only edible but also medicinal.  Not African violets, different family. Violets are also called Heart's Ease, soothing spirits that are heartbroken and grieving. Pansies, violets, Johnny Jum Ups all work and taste pretty much the same.