Pansies To Brighten Your Garden

Nothing matches their charm, or the incredible array of colours and colour combos. There are pansies with faces, with whiskers, and with frilly petals, and even some that look as if they have been hand painted.

If you don’t think your garden needs more colour, look again. They take up as little or as much space as you determine. They fill any nook or cranny, old wheelbarrow, gutter, hanging basket and pot, as a border or between spring bulbs; anywhere that receives enough winter sunshine.

Pansies can be teamed up with other flowering annuals such as alyssum, Bellis perennis, Iceland poppies, calendulas and violas. Use them as a border to frame tall snapdragons (Antirrhinum), delphiniums and stocks. If a bed receives a mix of sun and shade, use pansies as a sunny border for shade-loving Primula malacoides behind them.

Growing pansies