Re: Pansies

In a message dated 98-07-04 06:34:24 EDT, you write:

<< I couldn't believe my eyes.  I
 had never heard of perennial pansy before.. >>

Gee.  I didn't know there were perennial pansys either.  The ones we grow in
zone 6 are cool season annuals.  I buy them in bloom in the fall and enjoy
them until hard frost.  Then they bloom again in the spring.  Once it gets
hot, they fade away never to return.  But getting fall and spring bloom from
an annual isn't bad!  

And sometimes, if you are lucky and they are in a protected spot, they will
also bloom anytime it warms up in the winter.  This is rare here, but I have
heard such reports and even seen it a time or two.  (Only once in my own
garden.)  But in any case, they don't live more than one year.  They have
never self seeded for me.  

Are we all talking about the same plants?  Most violets are perennials.
Around here we call the perennial Violas "violets" and the annual Violas
"pansys".  The pansys have larger flowers than the violets.  

If anyone out there knows of a perennial pansy, please let us know about it!

--Janis
Webster Groves, MO
(St. Louis area, zone 6)
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