Annual comes from the Latin meaning “pertaining to a year.” These plants live their whole lives within a year, and often just a season. Our traditional garden flowers, such as pansies, petunias, and ...

If you are looking for the perfect flowers to enliven your winter landscape, pansies and violas ought to be your choice. In the South, both bloom nonstop from fall through spring, providing cheerful ...

Viola x wittrockiana, more commonly known as Pansies, are short-lived perennial flowers. Originating back in the 1800s, the flowers come in a vast array of colors and are ideal for planters, hanging ...

Flowers on viola plants are often so prolific they can obscure the foliage, and the smaller flowers hold up to rainy winter ...

Dear Master Gardener: What’s the difference between viola and pansy? How cold tolerant are they? Answer: There are about 500 species of annuals, perennials, and biennials in the Viola genus. All of ...

We have waited to plant pansies, primula and cyclamen because they are more sensitive to warm spells than other cool-weather annuals. Pansies are, however, more cold tolerant than snapdragons, ...

of pansies for the upcoming fall and winter season. I consider this a positive sign as we are all still sweltering with the summer heat. Pansies are tough plants that will perform all through the fall ...

When you’re shopping for flowers, you’ve heard the terms “annuals” and “perennials.” But is one kind better than the other? What’s the difference? And do you care for them differently? Sometimes ...

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If you've ever planted flowers in your yard, you will know that some of them are annuals while others are perennials. Most of ...