Thank you Vicky for reminding us to plant pansies.
I will do so next weekend. They are such bright little flowers, they really light up the surroundings.

Love,
Sue

I actually went and bought two pots of pansies which I put in my garden
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Pansies
R. C. Lehmann

Tufted and bunched and ranged with careless art
Here, where the paving-stones are set apart,
Alert and gay and innocent of guile,
The little pansies nod their heads and smile.

With what a whispering and a lulling sound
They watch the children sport about the ground,
Longing, it seems, to join the pretty play
That laughs and runs the light-winged hours away.

And other children long ago there were
Who shone and played and made the garden fair,
To whom the pansies in their robes of white
And gold and purple gave a welcome bright.

Gone are those voices, but the others came.
Joyous and free, whose spirit was the same;
And other pansies, robed as those of old,
Peeped up and smiled in purple, white and gold.

For pansies are, I think, the little gleams
Of children’s visions from a world of dreams,
Jewels of innocence and joy and mirth,
Alight with laughter as they fall to earth.

Below, the ancient guardian, it may hap,
The kindly mother, takes them in her lap,
Decks them with glowing petals and replaces
In the glad air the friendly pansy-faces.

So tread not rashly, children, lest you crush
A part of childhood in a thoughtless rush.
Would you not treat them gently if you knew
Pansies are little bits of children too?

Pansies are here again. I put some pots in our garden on the weekend, and their smiling little faces really brighten up everything.

Love,
Vicky

Thank you for bringing back this topic Vicky.
Pansies are really beautiful to look at after a long winter. I put a couple of pots into my garden on the weekend, and I can see them from my dining room. They really look bright and cheerful.

Love, Inda

I put some more pansies into the garden for Easter, and they are so colourful and cheerful to look at. All our other spring flowers are barely starting to bloom, so the pansies really brighten everything up.

What a wonderful post, I love pansies too and just the other day a friend advised me to plant some pansies, because they are very resistant besides being so beautifully colorful. Created this haiku for you right now:



Pansies mock girlies:

playful they sway in the sun

to show off gay robes





Love,
Margherita

Thank you dear Margherita for joining this thread, and thank you for the very beautiful words:

Pansies mock girlies:

playful they sway in the sun

to show off gay robes


Love,
Vicky

quote:

Pansies mock girlies:

playful they sway in the sun

to show off gay robes

Thank you for the beautiful words Margherita.

Pansies are really such a joy to see after a cold winter.

Love,
Sue

Thank you, dear Sue and dear Vicky, for your inspiration and for your appreciation of the little haiku.

They remind me also of my youth, as we had them in our garden in Switzerland. "Daenkeli" such is the name in Swiss German.

I want to see if I can find a picture with this Swiss name

Yes!

Love,
Margherita

quote:

Pansies mock girlies:

playful they sway in the sun

to show off gay robes

Thank you for the little haiku Margherita.
It is as lovely as the pansies.

Thank you all for the wonderful images.
pansies do brighten up this part of the world. We have long winters and this year spring seems to be a bit on the cools side as well. These vibrant, colorful little flowers are very lovely to see.



Love,
yoko

Thank you Margherita for your lovely image.

Pansies are all over the place.
I see many pots in gardens, in entranceways and on windowsills. They are smiling at us with happy little faces.

"Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap." -- Bayard Taylor