Wittrock violet or simply pansy

The popular garden plant pansy is also called viola or Wittrock violet. It is loved by flower growers all over the world. Plant pansies already blooming at the very beginning of summer, and they will delight you with their blooming until autumn frosts, and if the winter is not too cold, they will bloom again in early spring, since the plant is biennial. Violas are often used in landscape design, to decorate balconies, loggias and just windows; they are also planted to decorate burials. These wonderful flowers often reproduce by self-sowing. Having planted them once, you will admire the blue, burgundy, yellow, and orange Wittrock violets until they freeze out in some particularly cold or little snowy winter.

For getting flowering seedlings by June, it is better to sow pansy seeds at the end of February or beginning of March in seedling boxes. They are then covered with glass or wrapped in plastic, creating mini greenhouse, which should be ventilated every day to avoid condensation accumulation. Watering is carried out using a spray bottle. Shoots will appear in 1-2 weeks. In the phase of a pair of true leaves, the plants are planted in separate containers, deepened to the cotyledon leaves. Plants can be planted in the ground as early as May. Pansies will bloom with larger flowers in sunny placese.

Wittrock's violet is a rather unpretentious plant. Caring for it involves regular watering, weeding and loosening.The plant also responds well to fertilizing. mineral fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, superphosphate). To prolong flowering and give the plant a neat appearance, faded flowers must be removed in a timely manner.