Pansies and violas belong to the same plant family, and all of them are fabulous for adding colour to beds, borders and containers. Whether you sow the large-flowered pansies or smaller trailing pansies and violas, they'll repay you with masses of long lasting flowers and many have a gentle fragrance too.

Pansy seed is easy to sow and it germinates best at low temperatures; making pansies and violas ideal to sow throughout the year for colourful winter, spring and summer displays.