Small Winter Pansies

[kloofnek]

I want to d a hanging basket with winter pansies,I got a gardening booklet selling bulbs,seeds etc. and I noticed small pansies(could be Violas,something like that) which I prefer to the larger pansy(they seem to go straggly and ugly after a while) but I threw the booklet out.Can anyone advise me on this?

[kloofnek]

sorry:do a hanging basket

[Prudie]

Yes the small sweet ones are Violas which I also prefer. they're not so easy to come by in the Winter though.

[woofgang]

B and Q? Homebase or your local nursery will have plants soon, check that they are winter flowering, or browse here, look for "small flowered"
http://search.thompson-morgan.com/seeds/Winter%20Flowering%20Pansy%20Plants

[kloofnek]

So,Vilas are not good for winter...right.will go to the garden centre nearby,we have a really good one,Huge and sells everything one wouud want for gardening.
Can anyone suggest other small flowers for my baskets....tried and tested.

[Frank97]

Are these them?
http://www.jparkers.co.uk/plant-0007307--1/viola-yellow-jump-up/

[kloofnek]

...Violas

[kloofnek]

yes,Frank,that`s the ones I mean...thanks

[murraymints]

Violas will not survive...winter flowering pansies will....variegated ivy as a trailer..or a winter flowering jasmine that you could then put in garden as a climber in the spring....

[wolf63]

Just had to say this and then I will go

kloofnek ~ I am just up and not awake, the title of your post made me snigger. There has to be a joke there somewhere. :-)

[gipsey]

Try jersey direct very good website

[murraymints]

Cyclamen..

[kloofnek]

Sorry all that I have not ot back to you sooner...been out for the day.Wolf63,not quite sure what you mean...there is no double meanning to my post title.

Murray.Jasmin.must as I love it,won`t do .it is just baskets I want to do.
Cyclaman..not keen on that,always thought is was an indoor plant.

It will have to be normal pansies...can I sort of "prune" them to stop them getting straggly.?

[wolf63]

Lionel

Your title is fine, my sense of humour is twisted.

My parents were both keen gardeners but they failed to pass on to me the. relevant gene.