Pansies

We were in the city yesterday

And one stop was by the nursery that has pansies!

Purple ones this year

And some with yellow faces

I love my pansies

From March (and sometimes February) until June,

they fill the armillary planter in the garden, the back door planters and the window box in the back garden

How can you not like a flower that smiles at you?

Here are the pansies at Linderhof through the years:

2009

Pansies and violas in a mix of colors -- including some black ones!

2010

In the window box in the back garden -- faceless violas

2011

The moss wreath on the back gate

I've had it "forever" --

Sometimes I put it on the gate and other times on the table in the arbor

In 2011, lavender violas filled the wreath

2012

A big pot full of mixed pansies

2013

The planter by the back door filled with violas in purples and yellows

2014

Violas with cute kitten faces in the planter by the back door!

2015

The armillary planter in the middle of the back garden

with yellow pansies

2016

Multicolored pansies in the repainted planter by the back door!

2017

My favorite pansies -- purple with the yellow face!

I enjoyed by looking back at my pansies through the years.

I love my garden flowers and perhaps one reason I like the pansies so much

is that they're the first thing I plant every year.

But each Winter (in late February or early March)

they make my heart sing!

As I get to dig in the dirt once again after a winter indoors.