Last year I tried to buy small flower purple pansies and nobody had them for sale around here! Strange! Very strange! To think that these were the pansies that I remember from when I grew up.
Simple pansies with small flower heads and with a "face" coloration where planted everywhere in public gardens or city landscaped areas.
Pansies are adaptable small, charming plants. Because of it, the growers started to mess around with the colors. Now you can find a wide color range like: red, bronze, pink, black, yellow, white, lavender, orange, apricot and mahogany. The flowers may be of a single color or have two or three colors with a face. But where are the purples and the blues? Nurseries of Ohio, please carry more purple and blue this year!
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| Lysmachia nummularia "Aurea" with Viola or Pansy |
That is a fabulous color and plant combination, Daniela. I adore purple with anything that has the similar chartreusy tones as the creeping jenny. I have an interesting succulent looking euphorbia that is starting to show off its chartreuse bracket tips...I think I will put a pot of purple pansies (large flowered ones seem plentiful at Lowes) in the middle of a swath. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you liked the idea! That creeping Jenny was so invasive that it covered the whole rose bed completely. Then it got a mealy worm disease that made me hate it so I ripped most of it out but the laterals which I keep a watchfull eye on. A different slower growing chartreause plant will be more desirable.
Deletecould the pansies be the kind that flower every other year? I recently saw seeds for such pansies and wanted to buy but then I have a relatively small garden and want flowers and colour every year :-)
ReplyDeletelove your blog...
Violas tend to be the hardy ones that come back as perennials. The large flower ones labeled Pansies never come back. Last year I planted Viola Johnny Jump -up somewhere. I have to see if I get any back this spring. When the will bloom, I will show them here in a post.
DeleteWhat about Johnny jump-ups (viola tricolor) with the creeping jenny? They do come back every year and bloom for me all season long. The flowers are a little smaller than pansies, and some are more yellow than purple. I like the different looks they have in different parts of the garden based on different breeding.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great suggestion. That is exactly what I ended-up buying last year. I have my eyes on another cute hardy viola "Ethain". I only see it in catalogs. I am awaiting for a free shipping promo from Bluestone Perennials to get a couple this spring.
DeleteThanks for visiting and commenting on my blog, your flower combination is lovely, purple is great in the garden, I have 5 huge window boxes in my front garden with blue and purple plants – among other, pansies with faces :-)
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