Pansy (Garden Pansy,
Heartsease, Ladies-Delight)
Viola X wittrockiana. VIOLACEAE.
Planting and Growing Pansy
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow pansy in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of pansy
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for pansy
- Season of bloom and planting time for pansy
- When, how deep, and where to plant pansy
- How to plant pansy
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of pansy
- Landscape and container uses of pansy
- Comments about pansy and its features
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Growing Pansy
Many hybrid cultivars of upright, mounding annual or short-lived perennial herbs, 6–9 in. (15–23 cm) tall. Shiny, deep green, oval to heart-shaped leaves, to 2 in. (50 mm) long, with scalloped edges.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many showy, blue, brown, burgundy, light and deep purple, red, white, yellow, irregular, 5-petaled flowers, 2–5 in. (50–125 mm) wide, with striking, facelike appearances due to contrasting petal markings, in early spring–late autumn or early winter.
Best Climates
Plant as tender annual, zones 2–7; ground hardy, zones 3–9. Best bloom in cool-summer climates.
Soil Type and Fertility
Moist, well-drained loam. Fertility: Rich–average. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Late spring in full sun to partial shade, 6–8 in. (15–20 cm) apart, after soil warms. Start seed indoors 10–12 weeks before final frost for early blooms; transplant when soil warms.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep moist. Fertilize monthly. Deadhead spent flowers. Propagate by division, seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for hanging baskets, beds, borders, containers, massed plantings in cottage, formal, rock, shade, woodland gardens. Good for cutting, companion for spring bulbs. Slug, snail, violet sawfly larva and anthracnose susceptible.