50+ Silverbride Swiss Giant Pansy Flower Seeds- Pansy Flowers- Swiss Giant Pansy Flowers-Beautiful Biennial-VIOLA WITTROCKIANA- B404
Description:
One of the most popular flowers today! Home gardeners are growing pansies (Viola x wittrockiana) from seed for their beautiful, round-faced blossoms and striking foliage. Also known as violas, they are often the garden’s first seen flowers and bloom in a variety of colors – all summer long! Cheerful plants are perfect for pots, window boxes, rock gardens or borders. Low maintenance pansy plants will provide cool weather color and can be overwintered with a good mulching in gardening zones six and higher.
They are short-lived in very warm environments. Pansies are a self-seeding perennial — grown as an annual in the North — that can reach 4 to 10 inches tall, depending on the variety No garden is complete without a white pansy flower with a purple blotch! Easily grown from Pansy seeds, this Swiss giant Pansy reaches 3 inches across and features a white bloom with a purple blotch. The Viola Swiss giant is known for its large flowers and dark blotches in the center, and it is one of the largest Pansy flowers available. Pansy plants are great performers in the garden, in tubs on the patio or for cut flower bouquets, and they will flower the first year. The garden pansy is a type of large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower. It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium ("the pansies") of the genus Viola, particularly Viola tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease.
Fun fact: Pansy flowers and leaves are edible and offer super-sized amounts of vitamins A and C.
Season: Biennial
Height: 8 to 10 inches
Hardiness Zones: 5 - 9
Maturity: 60-85 days
Bloom Season: Spring and summer
Bloom Color: White
Environment: Full sun to partial shade
Soil Type: Average garden soil, pH 5.8 - 7.2
Temperature: 65 - 70 F (18-21 C)
Average Germ Time: 7 - 21 days
Spacing: 9 to 12 inches
Light Required: No
Depth: Cover seed lightly with peat moss
Sowing Rate: 3 - 4 seeds per plant
Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
Sow Pansy seeds indoors about 6 - 8 weeks prior to being able to plant outside. Sow the flower seed into trays or pots using a quality starter mix and cover lightly with peat moss. Shade the trays or pots as darkness aids germination. Keep Pansy flower seeds moist. As soon as the giant Pansy seedlings emerge, move them to a cool, bright area and continue to keep them moist. Harden off the Pansy plants prior to planting out, and use a liquid, balanced fertilizer. For fall blooms, set out Pansy plants as early as possible so they will be well rooted when soil temperatures fall, preferably 3 - 4 weeks before the first harsh frosts. For spring blooms, begin setting out Pansy plants up to a month before your last frost is expected. Twelve weeks are needed from seeding to bloom.
