Flirty Skirts Mix Pansy Seeds
No more shy pansies—these blooms beam back at you
- Genus: Viola
- Species: x wittrockiana
- Variety: Flirty Skirts Mix
- Item Form: (P) Pkt of 25 seeds
- Bloom Start to End: Early Spring - Mid Winter
- Habit: Compact
- Seeds Per Pack: 25
- Plant Height: 6 in
- Plant Width: 6 in
- Bloom Size: 2 in
- Additional Characteristics: Bloom First Year, Cool Season, Easy Care Plants, Flower, Free Bloomer, Needs Deadheading, Repeat Bloomer, Season Extenders
- Bloom Color: Black, Blue, Mix, Multi-Color, Purple, White, Yellow
- Foliage Color: Dark Green
- Light Requirements: Part Shade
- Moisture Requirements: Moist, well-drained
- Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy
- Uses: Beds, Containers, Cut Flowers
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Ruffles and smiling faces are the hallmarks of this fantastic European variety, one of our classic favorites for many seasons now. These cheerful 2 inch blooms are 100% ruffled, as compared to older varieties where the ruffles tend to be erratic and scarce. And the flowers turn upward instead of nodding, giving you a much showier display than larger flowered types that shyly hide their faces. Fkirty Skirts is "the" container pansy in Europe, and will create a sensation in your garden, too.
Mix Includes Two Color Blends:
Blue: Offers a bright confection of white, yellow, and various shades of purple and blue.
Burgundy: Combines deep reddish-purple and blue with jet-black markings.
These blooms seem larger than they really are, thanks to the ruffling, which adds texture and depth to the display. Expect them to appear heavily in spring, fall, and winter in mild and warm climates, and from spring 'til hard frost farther North.
Flirty Skirts starts blooming earlier than older pansies, too. Very well-branched and compact, this vigorous little plant begins setting buds faster than most others, and just doesn't seem to know how to stop. It's great in containers, but also looks fine in the annual bed, reaching just 6 inches wide and, when not in bloom, 6 inches high. The abundant flowers add another 3 to 6 inches to its side, spilling merrily in all directions. Very attractive and so easy.
Viola Germination Information
Viola is the botanical name for Violet and Pansy
How to Sow Viola: - The seeds of both perennial and annual types can be sown indoors at 65-70°
- Sow them at a depth of 4 times the size of the seed and expect germination in 10-20 days
- Sow the perennials in mid-winter or early spring to produce plants that will flower that year
- For a spring flower display with the annuals, sow them indoors at the same time, or sow them outdoors in summer and overwinter them in a cold frame (or plant them out in the South)
- Both the annuals and the perennials can be sown outdoors anytime from spring through fall, with germination occurring the following spring
- When sowing seed outdoors, we recommend a maximum planting depth of 4X the width of the seed
How to Grow Viola:
Transplanting: Transplant when there are at least two sets of true leaves
Spacing: Space the seedlings 8 inches apart in a moist, rich soil
Lighting: Site them in full sun in the North; partial shade in the South. V. odorata requires less sun than the others: partial shade in the North; full shade in the South
Temperature: Pansies, violas, and Johnny Jump Ups grow best in cool temperatures, thus they are grown as spring through summer flowering plants in the North while they are planted in the fall for winter through spring flowering in the South
Additional Care: Where grown year round, the annuals should be mulched in the summer to be kept cool and moist. Deadhead to promote continuous flowering and to remove seed heads. The annuals will readily self-sow, but do not germinate true-to-type. To promote compactness, pinch at planting time and throughout the growing season.
Appearance and Use:
These plants are used as bedding and edging, and in showy container displays. They all have flat, dainty, single flowers and the perennials have green, heart-shaped leaves while the annuals have green, ovate, deeply lobed leaves. V. cornuta, is a rhizomatous plant, growing 6-12 inches tall. It bears fragrant, 1-2 inch, solid or bicolor, yellow, blue, purple, red, or apricot flowers. Hardy from Zones 6-9. V. odorata is also rhizomatous. It grows to 4 inches tall. The spring flowers are 1 inch diameter, sweetly fragrant, and colored bright or deep blue. Hardy from Zones 6-8. V. tricolor, Johnny Jump Up, is a mounded plant 10 inches tall. It bears petite flowers that are tricolored purple, yellow, and white. Grown as an early spring annual in the heat of the South, however it is hardy to Zone 4. V. x wittrockiana, Pansies and Violas, grow 9 inches tall. They bear robust, 3-4 inch flowers with solid, blotched, or faced patterns in colors of red, purple, blue, bronze, yellow, white, pink, lavender, or orange
About Viola:
Pronunciation: vi’o-lå
Lifecycle: Annual
Origination: Violaceae, native to temperate regions
Common Name: Violet, Pansy
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.
Ruffles and smiling faces are the hallmarks of this fantastic European variety, one of our classic favorites for many seasons now. These cheerful 2 inch blooms are 100% ruffled, as compared to older varieties where the ruffles tend to be erratic and scarce. And the flowers turn upward instead of nodding, giving you a much showier display than larger flowered types that shyly hide their faces. Fkirty Skirts is "the" container pansy in Europe, and will create a sensation in your garden, too.
Mix Includes Two Color Blends:
Blue: Offers a bright confection of white, yellow, and various shades of purple and blue.
Burgundy: Combines deep reddish-purple and blue with jet-black markings.
These blooms seem larger than they really are, thanks to the ruffling, which adds texture and depth to the display. Expect them to appear heavily in spring, fall, and winter in mild and warm climates, and from spring 'til hard frost farther North.
Flirty Skirts starts blooming earlier than older pansies, too. Very well-branched and compact, this vigorous little plant begins setting buds faster than most others, and just doesn't seem to know how to stop. It's great in containers, but also looks fine in the annual bed, reaching just 6 inches wide and, when not in bloom, 6 inches high. The abundant flowers add another 3 to 6 inches to its side, spilling merrily in all directions. Very attractive and so easy.
Viola Germination Information
Viola is the botanical name for Violet and Pansy How to Sow Viola: - The seeds of both perennial and annual types can be sown indoors at 65-70°
- Sow them at a depth of 4 times the size of the seed and expect germination in 10-20 days
- Sow the perennials in mid-winter or early spring to produce plants that will flower that year
- For a spring flower display with the annuals, sow them indoors at the same time, or sow them outdoors in summer and overwinter them in a cold frame (or plant them out in the South)
- Both the annuals and the perennials can be sown outdoors anytime from spring through fall, with germination occurring the following spring
- When sowing seed outdoors, we recommend a maximum planting depth of 4X the width of the seed
How to Grow Viola:
Transplanting: Transplant when there are at least two sets of true leaves
Spacing: Space the seedlings 8 inches apart in a moist, rich soil
Lighting: Site them in full sun in the North; partial shade in the South. V. odorata requires less sun than the others: partial shade in the North; full shade in the South
Temperature: Pansies, violas, and Johnny Jump Ups grow best in cool temperatures, thus they are grown as spring through summer flowering plants in the North while they are planted in the fall for winter through spring flowering in the South
Additional Care: Where grown year round, the annuals should be mulched in the summer to be kept cool and moist. Deadhead to promote continuous flowering and to remove seed heads. The annuals will readily self-sow, but do not germinate true-to-type. To promote compactness, pinch at planting time and throughout the growing season.
Appearance and Use:
These plants are used as bedding and edging, and in showy container displays. They all have flat, dainty, single flowers and the perennials have green, heart-shaped leaves while the annuals have green, ovate, deeply lobed leaves. V. cornuta, is a rhizomatous plant, growing 6-12 inches tall. It bears fragrant, 1-2 inch, solid or bicolor, yellow, blue, purple, red, or apricot flowers. Hardy from Zones 6-9. V. odorata is also rhizomatous. It grows to 4 inches tall. The spring flowers are 1 inch diameter, sweetly fragrant, and colored bright or deep blue. Hardy from Zones 6-8. V. tricolor, Johnny Jump Up, is a mounded plant 10 inches tall. It bears petite flowers that are tricolored purple, yellow, and white. Grown as an early spring annual in the heat of the South, however it is hardy to Zone 4. V. x wittrockiana, Pansies and Violas, grow 9 inches tall. They bear robust, 3-4 inch flowers with solid, blotched, or faced patterns in colors of red, purple, blue, bronze, yellow, white, pink, lavender, or orange
About Viola:
Pronunciation: vi’o-lå
Lifecycle: Annual
Origination: Violaceae, native to temperate regions
Common Name: Violet, Pansy
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
Park Seed offers some of the highest-quality vegetable and flower seeds available in the industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
To make sure we are providing the best seed product possible and that our customers will get the highest number of seedlings from every packet, we conduct our own germination testing and have quality-control measures in every stage of our seed-handling operation. We hold ourselves to standards that are at or above federal and state standards, including testing specific crops more frequently than recommended by federal guidelines. And in order to maintain our organic certification, we welcome Clemson University to inspect us annually to make sure our organic seeds, which are stored and processed separately, are being handled properly.
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
And many of our seeds are packed in our exclusive Fresh-Pak gold foil packets, which are lined to keep moisture out, so the seeds stay fresher for longer. We carefully pack very tiny or fragile seeds in crush-proof vials to ensure safe delivery to your home. Some of the small seeds are also offered as "pellets" (have a clay coating) to make sowing and growing easier.
When it comes to the kinds of seeds we offer, we are constantly seeking something new and provide many unique and hard-to-find varieties from all around the world. Our on-staff horticulturists are ready and available to share their expertise to help you with the success of these seeds, so you can grow a beautiful and productive garden!
It is important for our customers to know that Park Seed does not sell GMO or treated seed.
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Extremely small seed such as Petunias and Pentas are shipped as pelleted seed to make them easier to handle and sow. Pelleted seed are coated, usually with clay, to make them larger in size. After sowing, the coating will dissolve when wet and the seed will germinate. Pelleted seeds are shipped in vials placed inside seed packets, which protects them from being crushed. When sowing, be certain to use thoroughly moistened soil, to be sure that the clay coating absorbs enough moisture to dissolve. For sowing pelleted Petunia seeds, place the seeds directly on the soil surface and do not cover with soil, as light aids in the germination.