Update on Pansy ‘Sweet Pea’ Sept 2014

Failure of a new plant to take off. Trailing behind traditional Pansy varieties I have not repeated my experiment with Pansy sweet pea varieties, nor have I tried sweet peas that grow as low as pansies.
Described below are the Pansy purchases I made in 2012. It included a new pansy that was designed to climb or be treated like a sweet pea.
They arrived in good fettle and got off to a good start in various locations.
The first flush of flowers were OK but not stunning.
The climbing habit was poor even when tied to appropriate pea sticks.
The wet spring and summer weather has seen off the rest of the pansies and all in all they were poor value.

Jan 10th 2012
Jersey plants have just mailed me a copy of their glossy but clear catalogue of plants for 2012. I was pleased to see and order some jumbo plugs of Senetti a daisy like flower that did so well for me last year. Prices are similar to other suppliers but postage is free.

I was suckered when it came to checkout into buying another 70 garden ready Pansy Sweet Pea a variety I have not come across before.

What are Pansy Sweet Pea

• This pansy grows to 18″ and has similar characteristics to sweet peas.
• The flowers are bicoloured and blotched in white, rose, pink, lilac, gold, red, and blue.
• They flower from April to October with ruffled petals.
• They are said to be ‘Ideal as cut flowers’ my reason for buying them.
• I will support these pansies with short canes and plant about 6″ apart.

I have joined a flickr group ‘VIOLETTA AMORE MIO’ that specialise in pansy and violet photographs and hope to get some good pictures of this variety to submit to the show.

Credits
Mozaic Pansies by robynejay CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Jersey Plants Direct