It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, onions, and leeks for the vegetable garden, and pansies, violas ...

Sometimes they are looking so pretty that it’s hard for me to pull mine up to plant my summer annuals in the spring. Pansies and violas are versatile plants and can be used in ...

One of the earliest spring annuals you can get your garden-gloved hands on might just be violas. Hancock says it performs well even in frost, which makes it a great choice for early spring color.

Another early spring-flowering plant which you will find right now at garden centers is ranunculus ( Ranunculus asiaticus ), also known as Persian buttercup. This plant produces beautiful flowers in a ...

To help guide your planting choices, we're sharing the best spring annuals to grow in window boxes, from colorful flowers to long-lasting foliage plants. Pansies (viola x wittrockiana) are early ...

Shear off achilleas, perennial violas (including all Viola cornuta varieties) and lychnis, plus anything else that looks leggy and thin at the bottom. Leave penstemons and most silvers intact ...

while “viola” is usually reserved for smaller, more delicate annuals and perennials. The biggest pests for pansies, as with most annuals and bedding plants, are slugs and snails. These ...