Pansy Cool Wave Mix Seeds

Pansy Cool Wave Mix Seeds produce spreading plants with a lively blend of cool-season colour. Their vigorous growth form and weather-resilient blooms suit baskets, containers and groundcover planting.

Want a confident start and plenty of cool-season colour? Explore our Pansy Grow Guide for seed cover, cool germination, variety spacing and regional care in South Africa.

Quick Grow Facts

• Plant Type: Cool-season short-lived perennial, usually grown as a seasonal annual.
• Scientific Name: Viola × wittrockiana.
• General Sowing Time: Late summer to autumn for winter and early-spring colour; late winter under protection for spring in hard-frost areas.
• Position: Full sun in cool weather; morning sun with afternoon shade as temperatures rise.
• Pretreatment: Sow directly; do not soak, chill, peel or crush seed.
• Sow Method: Cover with about 3 mm of vermiculite or fine seedling mix; light is not required during germination.
• Germination: About 2–3 days at 18–21°C under controlled propagation; in fluctuating home trays, manage the sowing for up to 14 days.
• Spacing: 25–30 cm apart.
• Growth Form: Trailing and spreading.
• Height: 15–20 cm.
• Spread: 61–76 cm.
• Flower Outcome: Approximately 5–6 cm.

Why Grow This Variety

• A vigorous spreading growth form creates broad colour coverage.
• Blooms withstand rain and adverse weather better than large-flowered types.
• Cascading growth works well in baskets and containers.
• The mixed colours suit groundcovers and combined plantings.

Garden Uses

Use Cool Wave Mix in hanging baskets, patio containers, groundcover areas or mixed displays where its spreading growth can fill space with colour.

Growing Notes

• Sow one seed per cell; do not soak, chill, peel or crush it.
• Cover with about 3 mm of fine medium and hold at 18–21°C with even moisture; light is not required before emergence.
• Move seedlings into bright light and cooler moving air immediately after emergence.
• Transplant when roots hold the plug and several true leaves have formed, then harden off gradually for 7–10 days.
• Space plants 25–30 cm apart and water at soil level; avoid waterlogged crowns, crowding and excess nitrogen.

Ornamental use: Do not eat seed or flowers. Use crop-protection products only as labelled for the crop and site.

Seed supplied by Ubuntuberg Seeds.