All about Pansies

Want to be the best Pansy grower in your neighborhood? Want to have the prettiest Pansies? Want to know more about growing Pansies?

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Here are the pictures for this years field of dig your own Pansies.

Evelyn's Childhood Pansy story - why she loves them

I'm Evelyn Weidner, the owner of this nursery and I have a very special attachment to pansies, especially what we used to call 'field grown' pansies. I grew up in a horticultural family. My father had studied in Sweden and Germany before he immigrated to America . The first crop he planted in Fresno were some pansies in the back yard. In those days pansies were dug and put into a sort of very thin wood container that was called a peach box.

It just held a dozen pansy plants. The plants were nowhere as large as those we grow today but they were nice.  This was shortly after World War 1. My mother was selling pansies at the Farmers Market before she could even speak fluent English. Later on, when I was a little girl of maybe 8 or 9, we  moved to the mountain village of Three Rivers in California  (does anyone know where that is?) We had a little native plant nursery right on the highway and if no one else was around to wait on the occasional customer I would go out and do my best! My father again planted a good size piece of ground into pansies. I can remember as though it were yesterday, eagerly watching the pansy buds develop and my excitement when the first flower burst into bloom. I loved selling those pansies! The box was never quite big enough and the last pansy had to be squeezed into it to make a dozen. I still love pansies and it is fun to once again have field grown pansies...only this time the customer does all the work and has all the fun.