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
“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
Going without a DVR demonstrated exactly how much of a pansy I am: I responded to not having DVR much the same way that 19th-century Irish responded to not having potatoes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2011
It was Nancy’s Babe, the obedient old dappled mare with flaxen mane and dark-purple eyes like magnificent pansy blossoms.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
"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
A military band marches among flowerbeds of pansies and violets.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
I planted a few pansies and tidied up the bathrooms; when it began raining, I dealt with some leaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
For this activity, thinner, flatter leaves and flowers like violas, pansies and cosmos work best.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
He turned off his truck and took a seat at the picnic table near the front door, nestled between a bed of petunias on the left and a bed of pansies on the right.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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