Power up with pansies

HAVE you ever stopped to admire the humble pansy? And when was the last time you did so?

Sometimes when we are surrounded by something and if we see it all the time, no matter how beautiful, it can become nearly invisible to us.

I have no doubt that if we couldn’t grow pansies here in Ireland and only got to admire them on our holidays to hot climates, we would be clamouring to get our hands on special seeds and nursing them with TLC to get them to flowering stage. But we are lucky enough that pansies, all of which are varieties of Viola, thrive in our climate and growing conditions.