Pansies 2023

[Branching Out]

I had a few lettuce seedlings in among one of my pansy patches, and with the intense hot weather that we have had over the last little while the plants have really grown quickly. One of those 'little' lettuces is now more than a foot across, so the pansies are having to stretch to reach the light.

 

[Dahlia]

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Two pansies successfully overwintered and are blossoming now.
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They also offered a lot of self-seeded offspring. I dug them out and would pot them on later as the flowers on my small shop windowsill. The color is lovely.
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I also sowed two varieties this year, dark purple and burgundy red.
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I read that you can eat the flowers on pansies. I bet they would look pretty on a cake!

 

[Phaedra]

The color is changing, lovely.