NEW Pansies for 2025! 🌼 Beautiful & Unique Varieties You Need to See

Hello everyone! I have a brand new flower that I'm very excited to share with you, and that is a double flower pansy. Now I didn't think I'd ever be super excited about pansies. I appreciate them, but I feel like... So I will usually go to the garden center to get my pansies, and when you're there, you really just get the same color palette oranges, yellows, purples, deep reds, whites, and that's not really my preferred color scheme. I just feel like when you're looking at pansies in garden center, you are limited to what you can find. Now you can order seeds online and get some pretty unique types, but for me, our spring season barely even exists anymore, I feel like. And fall, you never know what's going to happen, but also by the time August hits, I really don't want to start seeds inside. Also, I barely have any room in my garden beds right now, so I've just kind of been getting away from pansies until I got a message a few months ago from an Instagram friend who is interning at one of the greenhouses, and he told me about this brand new pansy and sent me a photo, and I fell in love. So they are right here. Now they might not look incredibly great right now, I will show you close-ups, but FedEx decided to leave them upside down, even though the arrow definitely said that way up. So when I got them, they were all spilling out of their pots. There's two different varieties, I'm not even sure if I've lined up, I think I got the same varieties in the correct line, but they were definitely a mess. So I've watered them, I've been, oh that one's so pretty, I've been leaving them outside so that they can re-bloom a little bit and recover, and they have started to, which is really nice. So I'm going to go through what these are, and then I'm going to plant them because we're headed out of town, and no one's going to be here to water them. Now I want to give you all the information to make sure I get it correct, but the name of these pansies is Elegance Pansies, and there are two different collections. The more pastel colored one is called the Antoinette Collection, and then the back one is called the Twilight Collection, which I think that name fits it perfectly. As far as growing information, these both grow the same, so the vigor and habit is medium and mounted, exposure full to partial sun. They're gonna get that very brief high hot afternoon sun here, so we'll see how they do. Height 6 to 8 inches, spread 8 to 10 inches, hardiness down to negative 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Now I have actually had pansies come back before on the rooftop deck, the front rooftop deck. I planted some pansies in fall two years ago, and our winter was mild enough that they came back, so I am thinking, or at least hoping, that with this area again being a bit more protected, that maybe I'll even have them come back in spring, which is great when I can actually have plants come back. Now I got these sent from Tagawa Greenhouse, and I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing any of these. I tried to look up people actually saying the name of the greenhouse and the name of the creator of this pansy online, and I could not find it, but I'm going to try my best. So these were created by Iseo Sato, and it says that his journey with the Tagawa Greenhouses began in the 1980s when he came to Colorado for an internship, and this is where my friend is working now. Upon returning to Japan, he spent decades dedicated to perfecting the art of breeding, channeling his experience and vision into creating truly distinctive pansy varieties. I love that. I love that somebody wanted to make so many more unique pansies. The result is the exquisite Antoinette collection, an offering he chose to share with Tagawa, honoring the deep connection formed during his early years. These extraordinary pansies are known for their lavishly ruffled blooms, displaying an enchanted palette of pastel colors that range from soft whites to delicate pinks to sunny yellows and gentle purples. The Antoinette collection represents a remarkable full circle, a testament to collaboration, dedication, and the shared pursuit of beauty in the garden. And then for the Twilight selection, it says that these pansies are a visual feast with intricate velvety textures and ruffled edges that evoke the elegance of a starry night. They come in deep blues, sultry reds, vibrant wine hues, and snowy white. So ask your garden centers if they know anything about this if you were looking for some of these beautiful ruffled pansies. But now let me take you in close, and I will start with the Antoinette collection because those are my favorite. So this one probably is my favorite color. It's that really light pink, but also just the ruffles. I think this flower is so beautiful, the form of it. And I like because I always wanted pink pansies, again, favorite color, and I never really found that option. So I'm excited to have these and try them out in the garden. So that's one of the pink ones that I have from the Antoinette collection. So that flower right there is that cool toned pink leaning into lavender color that I love, but also on this same plant there are flowers that are yellow on the outside but then have more of that lavender color on the inside. So those are just gorgeous. Let's see if I have a few different colors here. That one looks the same. Another one here. So actually this one I deadhead anyway, but there's that very light peach color. And then there are a little bit of darker colors in here, but I don't think these are as dark as the Twilight ones. I'm pretty sure this is part of the pastel collection. Look how pretty those are. Now this is one where I'd say the color is a color of just a generic pansy I can find, but the ruffles just make it so much more unique. I think those are all the color variations of Antoinette. So now let's look at Twilight. That flower is still growing, but look at that very, very deep, beautiful fuchsia color. I also have these, which are a light blue and darker blue in the center. All the colors of the other ones that are blooming look about the same, but just to show you again, one of those flowers. So I'm really excited to try these and see how they do in the garden. So here is my plan for planting these. The majority are going to go in the bed right behind me, where I pulled the summer annuals already, and then all of the pink ones that I have. So I like to do a fall color scheme of pink, pinks, purples, a few white flowers mixed in there. So all the pink ones I'm going to take up front and put in the pot. I think I've switched out like one and a half pots into their fall plantings. I've just, as soon as I've gotten a plant, I want to put there. I'll remove the other one, put the plant in it. So I will empty out one of those pots and then plant some of the pastel flowers, but let's plant back here first. Now I've already set aside the two pink pansies that I'm going to plant in the pots out front, but I'm going to plant the rest of these here. And I'm not doing much planning other than not putting the exact same colors right next to each other. This blue color is one of my favorites. So I'm going to put this one near the front. Oh, this root ball is very small, so I don't need to dig that deep. I'll actually put you in front of the irrigation there, and then hopefully it will spill a little bit onto the patio as it gets larger. Now some of these are going to have even more shade because they are currently covered by another plant. So we'll see how each of these pansies does in a slightly different location. I've planted the pansies back here. One thing I'm going to do though, before I go out and plant the ones in the front pot, is deadhead. And I'm doing this for two reasons. One, pansies are cut and come again. So the more often you remove the older flowers, it's going to cause the plant to put more energy into producing more flowers than into producing seed. Also, FedEx damaged a lot of these. So some of the flowers already look bad. Some of the stems are broken. So I'm going to clear off. I'm not sure I'm going to take every flower off, but the smaller ones I'll keep on, the larger ones I'll probably remove, and then of course anything that's broken. For example, with this yellow pansy, all of these branches are broken. So I'm going to remove them completely and then see what happens. Although I might save some of these to press, actually. I'm going to do that. The stem on this blue one here is broken. I'm going to leave that flower though. Let's see anything else. Broken stem here. Broken stem here. Okay. Well, I planted the front pot with the pink pansies, but I also deadheaded before I planted. So this is probably the least exciting plant reveal of all time. And then this is what the front pots look like now. So I have three that I've kind of transitioned more to fall with the dark colored foliage and the pansies. And then rest are still the plants from summer. Well, all the pansies are now planted and I'm really, really excited to see how these grow. Obviously, I will give you updates as they get larger and hopefully just covered in blooms and blooms that are not broken off. So let me know if you've tried something similar. Let me know if you also have just favorite pansy varieties that maybe are a bit different than the traditional pansies, different form, different color, because now I'm kind of falling back in love with pansies and might want to add more to my garden. But I'll link all the information about the Elegance pansies down below. Again, I'm not sure where you can find them in person, but I'm pretty sure you can order them online if you want, but I'll find that out and put it all down there. So thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video. Bye.