Pansy pictures for 2008

Here are the varieties and pictures for this year

Pansy Prices... You cannot compare field grown pansies with other 4" pansies. These pansies are larger and better rooted than the 4" pansies in pots that you see at other nurseries.

Because the roots have never been squeezed into a pot you get a more vigorous growing plant.

1---12: $1.35 each.
13---24: $1.25 each
25---49:$1.15 each
50---99¢ each
100 plus .89¢ each
4" planted pots $2.50 each

Just a little extra note. ...Your free pansy coupon can't be used in to count your pansies. These two free pansies come on top of what ever you pay for.

Background information.
At the end of the pansy pictues is some interesting reading on how we choose our pansies. Read it if you have time.

Sold out early last year Blueberry Thrill Produces loads of medium size flowers with blue lavender and wine shades Would look good with Rebel Yellow or Rebel White. Plant as a border or in a large low pot.	Frosty Rain The newest viola. It is a true cascading type of Viola. Use it in baskets and containers or in the front of raised planters.
Lavender Ultima Radience One of the most spectacular of the tiny viola flowes. Very intense colors.	Lilac Ultima Radience One of the prettiest in the Ultima series. Small viola flowers that can be used in combinations, or in pots or in mixed hanging baskets.
Pansy Frizzle Sizzle Ruffled edges and a variety of shades make this ideal for a pot where they can show off without competition.	Pansy Fizzy Lemonberry New for Weidners this year. Fizzy Lemonberry. This is one of our ruffled edge choices. The colors are soft and delicate with touches of rose on the edges
Dynamite Wine Flash Shades of purple, blues, yellows and smoky browns make Wine Flash unique Medium large blooms. Each one is a little different in shadings and colors.	Dynamite Strawberry Shades of deep rose make this pansy a winner. Each one is a different pattern
Crown Azure pansy Nice big blooms, consistent performer. Good anywhere The Crown series is an older group but this one is still a winner	Majestic Giant II Red with a yellow eye. This is the best deep red It is more red than any of the others.
The Matrix series from Ball Seed Co. We thank them for some really good pictures. Not amateur like Evelyn takes takes All of the Matrix series have a very good branching habit. Make nice full plants that all are about the same size so you can mix them very well in one flower bed. They have short stems and blooms stay above the foliage	XXL Deep Purple XXL means extra extra large This is the deep purple one and the colors are almost black.
Matrix Morpheus The best of the yellow and blues put together. This is called Morpheus and is not to be confused with the earlier Morpho which had a different look.	Matrix Citrus Mix White, Yellow and Orange All the citrus colors in one row to make digging easy. Pair with Matrix deep purple
Matrix Ocean Breeze Just like its name...every shade of blues Heavy bloomer	Pansy Matrix Rose. Try 3 or more different pots. They don't have to match. Put Rose in one, Sunrise in another . the third one is your choice.
Matrix Sunrise Mixed row has all of these variations of gorgeous warm colors. I love this one! The colors just seem to sing.	New this year for us is Matrix Rose Wing. Here you have the white along with that deep rose color . Each flower will have different shadings.
Matrix Purple This is the deepest purple of all .the pansies. Good accent with lighter colors	Matrix Orange Matrix White and Yellow This year we have plenty of whites/yellows to make you all happy. You will be happy!!
XXL giant Pansy This is that super big pansy called XXL We planted some rows of mixed colors to give you more options in colors.	Moulin Rouge. Beautiful shades in this variety. A softer look. The longer stems make for nice little bouquets
This is Whiskers Orange Possibly the most intense orange of all the varieties	Whiskers Yellow. One of the prettiest of theWhiskers Yellow is the best accent color you can use in the garden.
Whiskers Light blue The Whiskers violas are medium size and all have the special markings in the face. Like cat's whiskers	Whiskers Purple Medium size viola type. The Whiskers come from the little cats Whiskers in the face. Grows well and blooms profusely Pictured are some of the purple and white groupLots of variation in this group including a few Whiskers white that crept in.
Viola Rebel, Yellow, white and soft blue yellow.These are still a little small We'll se if they catch up.	Sorbet viola mix These are the tiny viola type. a little bit of eey color in this row. Lots of the small violas are in the front this year. No reason it just hapens.

How do we choose which pansies to grow?

Mary, Ryan make the choices with Miriam, our Ball seed representative. Miriam is always on hand for opening day
so you can talk to her.
Each year we choose some newer varieties and have to replace some old favorites.
The pansies we buy come in what are called 'Plugs. Little teeny weeny pots all put together in one tray. they come in all different sizes. Either 500 plants to a tray or sometimes a little larger plant in a 280 tray. We then transplant these into larger plugs, grow them along and eventually we put them into the field to grow and thrive for you. We want them to be big and full plants when you dig them.

15,000 plants sounds like an awful lot, but it goes fast when you get to crunch the numbers.

This year that ended up as 34 varieties and colors. Four of these we ordered 1,000 each. These are the one we think will be most popular. This year the count ended up 18,120 pansies. Some will die or not transplant well and some go into 4" pots, some to make baskets and 'ready to go' planters and the rest in the field. Oh yes, we try to plant some at the entry for show.
We agonize over which to buy. We try to buy more in mixed color so that you have more color choices. Once the choices are made we live with our choices. We know we cannot possibly choose every pansy variety there is so we try to pick the best.

For example :every breeder had Hanging Basket Violas this year. They all looked great but we had to choose one. Frosty Rain was our choice and then we made sue we got others that are almost as hanging as Frosty Rain..

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