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Viola tricolor. L. Viola tricolor is a common European wild flower, growing as an annual or short-lived perennial. The species is also known as wild pansy, Johnny Jump up (though this name is also applied to similar species such as the yellow pansy), heartsease, heart's ease, heart's delight, tickle-my-fancy, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, ...
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
The flowers arise from the attractive evergreen foliage of oval, deeply lobed, green leaves. Viola tricolor spreads widely by profuse self-sowing and delights us by showing up where we least expect it. It is called ‘Johnny Jump up’ in reference to its tendency to throw seeds everywhere.
18 lip 2023 · What is a Johnny Jump Up? The Johnny Jump Up, also commonly referred to as Heart’s Ease, Wild Pansy, or Viola tricolor, is a small and low-growing perennial plant that belongs to the Violaceae family. Native to Europe and parts of Asia, this delightful flower has made its way into gardens around the world due to its captivating beauty.
Viola tricolor is a small annual or short-lived perennial plant with a creeping and ramping habit. It grows up to 6 inches (15 cm) tall. Stems are light green to purplish-green, glabrous, and angular. Leaves are simple, lobed, or unlobed but not separated into leaflets and are medium green in color.
14 paź 2019 · A native of England and Europe, this is a cool climate plant that won’t do well in humid, tropical regions except in the cooler winter months. Sometimes called wild pansy, heartsease is believed to be the original wild form of all the modern varieties of pansy.
Viola ‘Heartsease’ is a delightful wild flower, bearing many small blooms variably patterned with purple, lavender and yellow, throughout summer. Plants self-seed freely and look charming allowed to naturalise through a border, wild garden or in woodland clearings.
