johnny jump up-tiny plant from away April 26, 2007
Posted by Sandy in a small garden in maine.trackback
I spent several hours moving plants around in my garden today. Tomorrow and Saturday are supposed to be rainy, so I thought that it would be a good time to do it.This season, all the herbs will be together, near the front of the garden. For the past few years, the cooking herbs were in the back, with the vegetables.
We have johnny jumps ups everywhere. The grass is full of them and, and they are so many different colors, that I decided to do a search to see what the most common color was. Just hit image search on google, and I think that you will be surprised. Down around Oklahoma and Arkansas, what they call johnny jump ups are pale violet wild pansies. Photos taken other places showed blossoms almost completely yellow. Look here to see where they came from originally, and here to see all the names these tiny plants go by.
My garden is peppered with these flowers. This one is growing on the path, and will have to be moved into a bed. That is one of my yearly getting the garden ready in the spring tasks. Whatever you call them, and whatever the color, these little guys are one of my favorite flowers.
Johnny Jump Ups always grew in my grandmother’s garden. Wonderful little guys.
Too bad they don’t seem to grow for me. May I please blame it on the soil?
A Johnny Jump Up by any other name . . .
Such intense color.
Johnny-Jump-Ups are one of my favorite flowers but I just can’t get them to naturalize. I have to plant new ones every year. I envy you.
Oh, great shot! They’re among my favorites too! I just love those sweet, sprightly, faces. But, I cannot get them to naturalize, which is weird because we have lots of wild violets, both white and purple. And I thought they were related?
They must all be related. I can’t take the credit for having a yardful of plants-they were here before I was!
I’ve never heard that name before - but it really suits them. Is it just a name for “ordinary” pansies (viola cornuta) or are they different in any way? If not, I grow them every year and what fascinates me is how the colours get mixed up through pollination. I started out with some ordinary mono or bi-cloured ones, and saved the seeds. Those that came up the next year were wonderful - splodges of three or four different colours here there and everywhere. Great fun.
They’re so enthusiastic-looking. The moniker ‘Love-in-idleness’ just isn’t as good as Johnny Jump Up.
Such a cheerful little flower! The color in your photo is striking — Great shot!
I’d have a garden full of them. So vibrant and cheery.
Most of my Johnny Jump Ups seem to have more purple in the flower. I also have them popping up all over the place and I, also, move them each spring. They are among the first to flower for me.
Zoey, most of ours are very dark purple, with some bright goldish orange.
What I love about Johnny Jump-ups is their toughness … spring frosts do not matter to them!
I didn’t bring any bulbs back because I was worried I’d have them confiscated at the border… I would have otherwise! I did sneak in some cut flowers though…
Who pollinates them