So why did it take us 23 years to figure this out?
When we planted them in the ground, they struggled to survive -- and always became hideously toasted by early July.
According to Wikipedia,
the name pansy is derived from the French word pensée, meaning "thought", and was so named because the flower resembles a human face; in August it nods forward as if deep in thought.
The pansies you see in these pictures are monkey-faced, having a dark blotch in the middle of the flower. The other main type is known as clear-faced.
There are more than 250 varieties of pansies.
What I particularly like about pansies is that they are a cold-tolerant plant. We've had them in containers for more than a month now.
When we planted them in the ground, they struggled to survive -- and always became hideously toasted by early July.
According to Wikipedia, the name pansy is derived from the French word pensée, meaning "thought", and was so named because the flower resembles a human face; in August it nods forward as if deep in thought.
The pansies you see in these pictures are monkey-faced, having a dark blotch in the middle of the flower. The other main type is known as clear-faced.
There are more than 250 varieties of pansies.
What I particularly like about pansies is that they are a cold-tolerant plant. We've had them in containers for more than a month now.
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