pansy
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Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
My own are his pansy collages, tightly packed, edge-to-edge congeries of overlapping floral faces that give off a bright radiance as well as well as a sense of menacing, staring eyes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
“There was even this period ‘the pansy craze’ where it was fashionable to have limp-wristed men in movies who may have been gay or trans or entirely outside that in movies.”
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2019
You can also try perennials such as the marsh marigold, Lily of the valley, astilbe, clematis, primrose, pansy and lamb’s ear.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2014
She realized that she was holding on to the silver pansy.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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"Dwarf pansies are definitely one of our very rarest plants, that will not be going extinct anytime soon," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
Trudging behind my mom to the local nursery, winding through the stacks of pansies and roses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026
A military band marches among flowerbeds of pansies and violets.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
The shrub, tree and perennial sections of the nursery offer plenty of alternatives to the usual winter pansies and those bulky, rigid cabbages.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2023
They were nothing like the dazzling purple petunias and multicolored pansies Miss Mallory cared for at the Home for Lost Girls, but they made Cady ache just the slightest for the place all the same.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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