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Graines de Viola Tricolore Heartsease - Pensée sauvage
This little half-wild pansy is becoming hard to find in the everyday hustle and bustle. Thank you for keeping it alive.
Claude, 07/09/2019
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Sought after for the delicacy of its flower, Viola tricolor, also known as Heartsease, is a small annual or biennial plant from which the cultivated pansy descends, bravely braving the harshness of winter to decorate our gardens. From summer to winter, it tirelessly displays its hand-painted corollas, which can be blue, white, yellow, and violet, each flower having its own personality. Over time, it forms a beautiful carpet of leaves and flowers and self-seeds abundantly in fresh, well-drained soil in the sun.
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Belonging to the violet family, Viola tricolor, or wild pansy, grows spontaneously in many regions of temperate Europe and Asia. It is a low perennial plant that has given rise to many hybrids, the most famous of which are garden pansies. It is a herbaceous ground-covering plant, reaching a height of 15cm (6in) when in flower. Its dark green, ovate, and lobed evergreen leaves form a spreading tuft with a somewhat creeping habit. It can sometimes be perennial, but most often biennial. Depending on the sowing date, this plant flowers from spring to winter, sometimes continuously if pruned at the end of summer. Its solitary and lateral flowers, carried on long peduncles, appear on aerial stems. The sepals are never larger than the corolla, which is 10 to 25mm (0.3 to 1in) long. It can be violet, purple, blue, yellow, or white. The tricolour form, yellow, white, and violet, is the most sought after and gives the species its name. The entire flower measures about 15mm (1in) in diameter, and the petals have a silky texture that reflects light well. The angular, branched stems bear ovate, lobed, or lanceolate leaves. This plant spreads quite rapidly thanks to its rhizomes and also self-seeds very easily in the garden.
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Horned violets and tricolour pansies are intended for low flower beds, borders, as well as pots and balcony planters, where they will be associated with other spring and summer flowering plants (Forget-me-nots, Dwarf daffodils, Daisies, Primroses, Botanical tulips, summer and autumn asters, etc.). The flowers of violets and pansies are edible, so don't hesitate to decorate your plates with one or two flowers, or even add some to your salads to give them a touch of colour.
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Sow the wild pansy in a nursery from July to September and then transplant the young plants into pots. Install your young plants in October before the first frosts, spacing them 20cm (8in) apart, in open ground.
Second option: sow under cover at the end of winter and plant the seedlings in open ground at the end of spring.
Germination takes about 15 days at 16°C (60.8°F).
Use a compound mixture of 1/3 compost, 1/3 garden soil, and 1/3 river sand. It takes 15 days for the seedlings to appear. Watch out for attacks from snails and slugs, as they are fond of these young plants.
Removing faded flowers will promote the renewal of flowering.
Wild pansies appreciate a light, humus-rich soil that is moist but well-drained, as they are sensitive to excess moisture in winter. In heavy soil, add some sand to improve drainage.
Plant the pansies in a sunny location, but not in direct sunlight or under light shade.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
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The flowering period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc.)
It will vary according to where you live:
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions located in USDA zone 8 (France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands).
It will vary according to where you live:
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.