10 Beautiful Ice Pansy Varieties that Bloom in Fall and Winter
29.08.2024 - 15:31
/ balconygardenweb.com
/ Ralph Astley
The time to act is now for the upcoming autumn! The stage is ripe to set your garden up for a colorful, sweet-scented, bloom-filled cold season. We give you a selection of pansy varieties that you should plant in the coming days of fall, as they are champions at handling frost, snow, and many things winter!
They’re also called “ice” pansies, but let’s check how far we can push their cold threshold.
Most of these pansy varieties will survive throughout in regions that experience mild winters, such as USDA zones 7-11. However, in colder areas—USDA zones 4 to 6—they will bloom through fall and likely go semi-dormant at the chilliest hours but can intermittently on milder days. So figure out your setting and get started already!
Now, you can plant them directly in garden beds, but provide some protection with mulch or frost fabric during severe cold spells. However, we love pansies in hanging baskets, window boxes, and quaint little planters. If you’ve done that, you can move them to a protected place when the temperature dips a lot.
So, what are the most beautiful winter pansy varieties? Let’s dig in.
Botanical Name: Viola tricolor ‘Heart’s Ease’
Arguably one of the most colorful pansies, the Heart’s Ease is a winter-hardy flower. Its delicate and multicolored blooms come in combined patterns of purple, cream, and yellow—all on a single bloom! It exudes a mild soothing fragrance and is often used as an edible garnish.
You can sow its seeds in spring or autumn, and it will produce blooms that will last through winter!
Botanical Name: Viola x Wittrockiana ‘Matrix Solar Flare’
What a cool name—it perfectly sums up its fiery reddish-orange color palette that spices up your garden from fall through winter. Hardy to USDA zones 5a-10a, it