Lesley's day by day

By lesleydiack

Pansies

Bought this new type of plant container that has 12 plants in it but that hangs down with the plants cascading down as well so this is the first one and it has 4 different sorts of pansies. But what is a pansy? Lady Mary Elizabeth Bennett brought the pansy to the attention of gardeners in the early years of the 19th century after cultivating every sort of Viola tricolor she could procure in her father's garden at Walton-upon-Thames. Viola tricolor has known many names in the English-speaking world including heartsease, love in idleness, and flower of Jove, but the name pansy is derived from the French, pensée (thought), and was bestowed upon the plant for its resemblance to a pensive human face. Hope this cascading plant pot will work!

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