Show Pansy Mary Kerr raised in Scotland

The very first open bloom of 2013 from this plant propagated by division last year.

This is an almost pure white show pansy. A yellow tinge will appear later which distracts somewhat.You can see this just beginning on the bottom petal below the bottom blotch.

Blotches amongst other things could be a better shape for show work, but this one grows like a weed ,more reminiscent of a viola than a show pansy, with many branching stems as the second attachment shows.

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Individual plants from the window box

These are the four individual plants referred to in my earlier post.

Will allow to self seed and see what the next crop produce.

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Seedlings bedders-Natures own breeding !!!

Last year in a small soil filled box which had been used for a vegetable crop many months after the crop had been harvested I noticed some small self sown plants of violas.

How they arrived in the box is debatable.

Anyway this spring I planted four into a window box and they have just started blooming.

They greet me each morning when pulling back the curtains and also every time I come home.

At present I have not cut one bloom and they are giving me enormous pleasure just as they are.

Bought at a local Much Wenlock Market

At the AGM I spied a tray of four bedders for sale.

Three blooms are shown along with a FP.

They have many obvious show bench faults, but might introduce some new colour breaks into my breeding so I have used pollen from two onto Florist Violas..

Will take another year to observe whether venture produces anything worthwhile.

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