Modern horticulturists have developed a wide range of pansy flower colors and bicolors including yellow, gold, orange, purple, violet, red, white, and even near-black ( very dark purple ).

The name ' pansy ' is derived from the French word pensée meaning " thought ", and was so named because the flower resembles a human face ; in August it nods forward as if deep in thought.

The flower has long been associated with human manner, as one man cleverly stated: “ Nature sports as much with the colours of this little flower as she does with the features of the human countenance .” The pansy ’ s particular connection to human thought and emotion is mirrored in one Dr. Evan ’ s poems, where he captures the whimsical, yet deep emotional roots of the pansy ’ s symbolism: “ Pied Pansy ,-once a vestal fair / In Cerestrain ,-now droops-/ Stained by the bolt of love her purple breast ,/ And ‘ freaked with jet ’ her party-colored vest ”.

Young American settlers also made pansy dolls by lining up the pansy flower “ faces ”, pasting on leaf skirts and twig arms to complete the figures.

In South Africa, they are known as pansy shells from their suggestion of a five-petaled garden flower.

The pansy derives its name from the French word pensée, which means " thought "; it was so named because the flower resembles a human face, and in mid to late summer it nods forward as if deep in thought.

The most popular flower in the city is the pansy, which is also the city's official flower.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

The pansy is a group of large-flowered hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers.

Thus Viola cornuta is correctly referred to as a pansy.

However, modern horticulturalists tend to use the term " pansy " for those multi-coloured large-flowered hybrids that are grown for bedding purposes every year, while " viola " is usually reserved for smaller, more delicate annuals and perennials.

Stem rot, also known as pansy sickness, is a soil-borne fungus and a possible hazard with unsterilized animal manure.

In Scandinavia, Scotland, and German-speaking countries, the pansy ( or its wild parent Viola tricolor ) is or was known as the Stepmother ( Flower ).

In Italy the pansy is known as flammola ( little flame ), and in Hungary it is known as árvácska ( small orphan ).

In Israel, the pansy is known as the " Amnon v ' Tamar ", or Amnon and Tamar, after the biblical characters ( II Samuel 13 ).

In some countries of Spanish language, the pansy is known as " Pensamiento " or " Trinitaria ".

Another name for the pansy is that of “ herb trinity ,” with its three colorful petals acting as symbols for the Holy Trinity.

The pansy ’ s connection to religion is also mentioned by Harte, who writes: “ From brute beasts humility I learned ;/ And in the pansy ’ s life God ’ s providence discerned ”.

The shape of the petals, in particular its resemblance to the human face, it is not surprising that the pansy would come to be associated with deep contemplation.

One man wrote in The Argosy: “ With its own symbolic meaning of thought, the pansy is also somewhat endued with a soft shadow, not necessarily of grief, but solemn and quiet, indeed grave, as thought should be .”

* The pansy is used in phytotherapy.

* The pansy is the symbol of Freethought.

In horticulture the term " pansy " is normally used for those multi-coloured, large-flowered cultivars which are raised annually or biennially from seed and used extensively in bedding.

The pansy is the long-established and enduring symbol of freethought, its usage inaugurated in the literature of the American Secular Union in the late 1800s.

In this game, two players would intertwine the hooks where the pansy blossoms meet the stems, then attempt to pull the two flowers apart like wishbones.

Because of this the pansy has long been a symbol of Freethought and has been used in the literature of the American Secular Union.

It has been introduced into North America, where it has spread widely, and is known as the johnny jump up ( though this name is also applied to similar species such as the yellow pansy ).

If the boy is a pansy which has pejorative connotations of cowardice or homosexuality, the man may be intolerant or overly judgemental but the victim is also presented in a less sympathetic way.

With regard to flora, some species-rich meadows remain, and the wood cranesbill ( Geranium sylvaticum ) and meadow cranesbill ( G. pratense ) are easy to spot in summer while the mountain pansy ( Viola lutea ) is a characteristic plant of the shorter grass round the upper dale.

Connolly brought with him Stephen Spender, a cause of some embarrassment as Orwell had referred to Spender as a " pansy friend " some time earlier.

In 1887, van Gogh painted Mand met viooltjes, and, in 1926, Georgia O ' Keeffe created a painting of a black pansy called simply, Pansy and followed it with White Pansy in 1927.

Long before cultivated pansies were released into the trade in 1839, V. tricolor was associated with thought in the " language of flowers ", often by its alternative name of pansy ( from the French " pensée "-thought ): hence Ophelia's often quoted line in Shakespeare's Hamlet, " There's pansies, that's for thoughts ".

The Sea pansy is a collection of polyps with different forms and functions.

The modern garden pansy was developed by William Thompson, Lord Gambier's gardener at Iver, Buckinghamshire, in hybrids of Viola tricolor with other violas, in the years following 1813 / 14.

The park's pansy bed features 10, 000 plants, designed into an oval floral " carpet " with a new pattern each year.

The gardens include: an aquatic collection ; butterfly garden and 2, 880 square foot ( 270 m² ) butterfly house featuring pansy exhibits during the winter ; greenhouse for tropical plants ; juniper collection with more than 30 types of junipers ; peony collection of 104 cultivars ; pinetum ; rock garden with sedum and sempervivum ; rose garden with more than 350 rose plants ; sensory garden ; Shakespearean garden ; woodlands with azaleas, dogwoods, elm, hackberry, honey locust, mulberry, osage orange, and redbuds ; and Xeriscape demonstration garden.

The species in this genus are sometimes confused with the pansy orchids, but it is the other miltoniopsis orchids that have flowers that closely resemble the pansy.

He planted the pansy seeds himself, buying them from a pansy specialist.

A bag of 250, 000 pansy seeds was placed in the Kvant-2 EVA airlock, a compartment not as protected from cosmic radiation as other Mir compartments.

The reasoning behind the pansy being the symbol of freethought lies in both the flower's name and appearance.

but pansy seeds, he told me, soon `` run down ''.

Every time you transplant a pansy you cause its flowers to become smaller.

Go to a reputable grower, preferably a pansy specialist.

Some unrelated species, such as the Pansy Monkeyflower, also have " pansy " in their name.

The common words " pansy " and " viola " are often confused.

Other nurserymen followed Lee's example, and the pansy became a favorite among the public.

About this time, James Grieve developed the viola and Dr. Charles Stuart developed the violetta, both smaller, more compact plants than the pansy.

The Universal Plus series of 21 cultivars covers all the common pansy colors except orange and black.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation ( FFRF ) uses the pansy symbol extensively in its lapel pins and literature.