Pansy Italian 'Moulin Rouge' - SEEDLING

Viola x wittrockiana F1

The 'Moulin Rouge' Pansies is a taller-stemmed mix, making it perfect to be grown for cut flowers. With large blooms and ruffled petals in a beautiful colourway, what more could you ask for in a cutting Pansy!

Pansies and Violas can very successfully be grown as perennials. Cuttings can be taken from plants to expand your collection of specific cultivars, and plants will self-seed resulting in new strains of beautiful Pansies and Violas in your garden.

Image credit: Brenna Estrada of Three Brothers Blooms & Farao Italy

The seedlings are young plants with strong healthy root systems, shipped in a recyclable/compostable pot that can be planted straight into the ground with your plant, reducing transplant shock.

GROWING INSTRUCTIONS

SPACING: 10cm for cut flower production

HEIGHT: 15-40cm (stems lengthen over time - for taller stems close planting / climbing support)

This Italian range of Pansies have been bred by and sourced from Farao Societola Agricola in Sarno, Italy. These specialty varieties of Pansies and Violas are making a comeback in floral design, led by the inspiring Brenna Estrada from Three Brothers Blooms in the US, who is about to release her book "Pansies: How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas". Pansies historically make fantastic cut flowers and the amazing modern breeding is helping to bring back the longer stemmed cultivars - which do need careful but quite simple growing methods to achieve useable stem length (like planting very closely together and/or next to a trellis). Brenna's book (and stunning Instagram content) and guidance from growers like Floret have inspired a Pansy movement in the US and I am so excited to bring these varieties to Australia so we can all fall in love with a new type of Pansy.