pansy 'Frizzle Sizzle Yellow Blue Swirl' (Frizzle Sizzle Series)
pansy (syn. Viola × wittrockiana)
- Position: Full sun or partial shade
- Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: Average
- Flowering: Milder spells from October to May
- Hardiness: Hardy perennial (but grown as an annual)
Vibrant double flowers with quirky, flat-faced yellow and blue crinkled petals speckled with a golden eye. 'Frizzle Sizzle Yellow Blue Swirl' is a compact evergreen perennial, most commonly grown as a show-stopping annual. Happy in baskets, borders, containers and window boxes, the sweetly scented flowers can be added to salads as an edible or decorative garnish.
Keep well watered, and feed with a good, high potash fertiliser (such as Tomorite) on a regular basis. Pinching off the spent flowers will encourage more to form. Protect young plants from slug damage using environmentally friendly slug pellets or beer traps.
Late winter, spring and autumn sowings can be done in a cold frame, into trays of good seed compost and gradually hardened off before planting out. Alternatively sow directly into a well-prepared seed bed in late spring to early summer, or in autumn. Gently thin the seedlings out to 15cm apart when they are large enough to handle.