Arrangement of garden pansies in large round planters at one of the entrances in the old cemetery. Earlier in the spring the pansies were combined with daffodils, but the other day when I passed, I noticed that the withered daffodils had been removed and more pansies added instead. Everything looking fresh, neat and colourful!
In a flower bed outside a building in my neighbourhood, I found these smaller ones below, which I think I'd call violets rather than pansies - although they are larger than the even smaller wild ones that I normally think of as violets...
The Wikipedia article on Pansy tells me that...
Modern horticulturalists tend to use the term "pansy" for those multi-coloured large-flowered hybrids that are grown for bedding purposes every year, while "viola" is usually reserved for smaller, more delicate annuals and perennials.
The name "pansy" is derived from the French word pensée, "thought", and was imported into Late Middle English as a name of Viola in the mid-15th century, as the flower was regarded as a symbol of remembrance.
I love massed flowers. The smaller pansy/violets are what I call "Johnny-jump-ups"
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