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
“Tucking in the plants for a winter snooze and watching grow winter flowers like primrose and pansy and cyclamen come to life.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
“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
A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a 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
For this activity, thinner, flatter leaves and flowers like violas, pansies and cosmos work best.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
She’s bought pansies and vinca and gazania, verbena, impatiens, and marigolds, and sacks of potting soil.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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