Pansies
At Fairview Garden Center, we grow Pansies as a cool season garden annual. We are proud of the fact that we grow over 130 different varieties. We love them for their wide range of colors and the ease in which they perform beautifully from fall until spring.
Pansies are a great way to replace your summer color for the cool fall and winter months. Whether in a container or in beds, they will brighten those gray days of winter.
Pansy comes from a French word for thought or memories. The common pansy’s scientific name is Viola x wittrockia and was named after Professor Brecher Wittrock, a Swedish botanist (1839-1914). They are a cross between Greek violets, V. tricolor and V. altacia (from Russia). They have been cultivated in gardens since the 1600’s. Violas have been used in gardens since 400 BC (from Viola cornuta). They were cultivated commercially by the Greeks. Now pansies and violas provide one of the largest color selections of any cultivated annual!
