Viola & Pansy Top 10 Festival Favourites 2024

Posted: 19 Mar 2024

Between 9th – 17th March this month, we celebrated our 21st Viola & Pansy Festival.

We have held the Viola and Pansy Festival every March since 2004. It is the largest independent variety trial of these plants held in the world, with seed of new varieties supplied by plant breeders from around the world. We have had seeds from USA, UK, Holland, German, Japan and more!

We are pleased to say that this years festival has been very successful with 2177 visitors voting for their festival favourites – It proves our Viola & Pansy Festival is an event that cannot be missed!

The votes are incredibly helpful to our plant breeders as they will know which varieties perform well during growing and then catch the public's eye in the garden centre. These votes can potentially decide which varieties get sold commercially! All the plants at the festival are either new, experimental or improved varieties. Each variety is a product of a process that can take about 7 years from discovering the variety testing and building up stock. The vast majority never make it to garden centre benches.

The Top 10 festival favourites were:

		Series	Variety
1	Viola	Sorbet XP	Morpho
2	Viola	Floral Power	Purple Pearls
3	Viola	Bel Viso	Orange Jump Up
4	Viola	Floral Power	Orange Red Wing
5	Viola	Floral Power	Yellow Beacon
6	Viola	Deltini	Rose Pink
7	Viola	Sorbet XP	Lemon Jump Up
8	Viola	Penny Pro	Blue Marina
9	Viola	Deltini	Honeybee
10	Viola	Bel Viso	Pineapple Crush