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Pansies v Violas

harmonyharmony Posts: 403
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Hi, which have you found best between Pansies and Violas for winter/spring pots.
I love them both and can't make up my mind..I've got a couple of Carex grasses in pots ( bronze colour ) and would like some autumn/spring colour.  Thanks...
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    TBH the best I’ve found are Panolas … a hybrid of pansies and violas … bigger flowers than violas but all their reliable floriferousness and weather resistance … and marvellous perfume … I’ve only ever seen them sold in our local Notcutts GC but I expect other garden centres sell them. 
    Worth asking around. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • harmonyharmony Posts: 403
    I've never heard of Panolas i will look them up thanks..
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I like violas. By spring they are a mass of pretty little flowers. I plant both, though. Never heard of Panolas either.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Here’s some info about them

    https://www.thewalledgarden.co.uk/winter-flowering-pansy-panola/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Of the two, l would go for violas. I must look up panolas as well. Thanks @Dovefromabove :)
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    edited August 2023
    Do you find violas, panolas and pansies over-winter ok? Is there anywhere good to buy panolas online?
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I find Pansies tend to sit over winter doing little, and then in spring flower and suffer from mould. I much prefer Violas
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I think violas are more floriferous. I bought some in January from a local GC and the majority are still flowering with the help of a bit of deadheading and some tomato food. They're only just beginning to give up the ghost. Good value for money  :)
  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    I love violas, but find they get whitefly and the slugs are forever attacking them, so I've given up.  My osteospermums seem to flower almost all winter, in pots in an L-shaped spot between two walls, facing south and on heat-radiating patio slabs, so I regard those as my winter colour! 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited August 2023
    Definitelt Violas.  But it's a matter of personal choice. I have them in a small "theatre", à la Calke Abbey/ Greys Court..
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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