Four Grouchy Violas by wonderworld

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Mar 18, 2012

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Shot today on my front porch in ornate concrete planters that my father gave to my mother on their 5th wedding anniversary. It's so cool to keep and use the old things. And some historical facts I did not know.... "Pansies appeared in the early 1800s when William Thompson, an English gardener, bred several species of violas and created in 1839 the "face" type pansies that we know today The first was named 'Medora'. By the 1850's many varieties of pansies had been developed in England, Scotland and Switzerland. By the end of the century, a single-colored form with no "face" was bred by a Scottish grower, Charles Stewart." Mr. Stewart must have been boring:)

Comments (13)

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jarmila

4:39AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

Lovely flowers and colors,ciao

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durleybeachbum

5:28AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

Hehe! I love that little white edge!

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Blush

5:44AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

If you look really close and just imagine.... Just a tad at the yellow it looks like they do have two eyes One on each side..........and where the yellow is looks like a little mouth that is grouchy and mean looking LOL never noticed that before you said it in the title.........and I got to reading your info..........BTW thanks for sharing something I didn't know........but the viola's are still pretty....and love that color...and like Andrea said love the white edge Hugs Susan~

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Feliciti

7:01AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

so beautiful and like the colors so much !!nice memories about too !

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midnightmum

7:50AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

A favourite flower of mine. I love it.

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tennesseecowgirl

8:02AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

I am glad he created them or breed them. Not because they always make me smile. Nice image.

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Erestorfan

11:07AM | Sun, 18 March 2012

Oh my, they DO look grumpy, LOL! Pansies, violas and violets are my fav flowers.

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Silkylady

2:17PM | Sun, 18 March 2012

This is fantastic, terrific, funny, interesting, beautiful and unique Violet. An outstanding capture. I like these critters. Wonderfully written. The lighting is perfect. I'm really impressed. I love simple and sweet. Truly cracks me up. Scary image here. Huggs... Silkylady...

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