Viola Sweeties F1 Hybrid Seeds

Viola x williamsiana Sweeties, also called hybrid pansy, is one of the best dwarf pansies and is perfect for containers and borders. This selection is a unique blend of attractive, small, bicoloured flowers that look like little tart sweets in shades of white, yellow, blue and purple. The compact plants are smothered by masses of blooms for a very long period, in summer or in winter depending on the date of sowing.

The Viola x williamsii group are composed of hybrids belonging to the family Violaceae and that result from cross-breeding V. wittrockiana (garden pansy) with V. cornuta, the horned violet. The 'Sweeties' selection consists of low-growing, branched plants forming clumps measuring 10 cm high and 15 cm wide. They are characterized by their rapid growth and extraordinary capacity to bloom in abundance for a very long time. Depending on the date of sowing, these pansies will be in flower all summer or all winter long. The flowers are small but innumerable and all of them feature bicoloured, 5-petalled corollas. They blend shades of white, pale blue, yellow, purple and mauve and are all illuminated by a beautiful golden yellow blotch at the base of the lower 3 petals. They look like the common pansy flower except that their petals are arranged differently. The top two are upright while the other three are angled downwards. It spreads quite quickly with its rhizomes and easily self-seeds in the garden without always faithfully reproducing the traits of their parents.

Dwarf pansies, just like horned violets, are meant for decorating low-lying beds, borders, pots and balcony planters, where they can be combined with other spring and summer flowering plants (forget-me-nots, dwarf daffodils, common daisies, primroses, botanical tulips, summer and autumn asters). The flowers of the horned violets are edible, so don't hesitate to decorate your plates with one or two flowers, or to use them to add a touch of colour to your salads.