Pansies could be the perfect wallflower — quiet, unassuming, blend-into-the-backdrop plants — of the garden. Not for Brenna Estrada, though. She’s researched their history, grown and sold them ...

The National Garden Bureau dubbed 2017 the Year of the Pansy — a well-deserved distinction for Viola x wittrockiana. Easy to grow, inexpensive and even edible, the now-celebrated annual bedding plants ...

Pansies are one of the most popular backyard flowers, and for good reason. Their joyful silhouette and vibrant colors bring interest to an otherwise blank canvas. While these hardy plants thrive in ...

It’s hard to resist the cheery faces of pansies, some of the most cold-tolerant flowering plants you can find. Courtesy Johnson County Extension I have a love-hate relationship with pansies. Spring ...

If you want a steady stream of colorful flowers in your garden from fall well into spring, you need to know a gardening secret. The season most people think of as a time for resting, winter, is ...

If you are looking for the perfect flowers to enliven your winter landscape, pansies and violas ought to be your choice. In the South, both bloom nonstop from fall through spring, providing cheerful ...

In literature and folklore, the pansy finds multiple mentions, most notably in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where Ophelia refers to it as the flower of thought. The name “pansy” derives from the ...