On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:06:38 +0100, Janet Tweedy
wrote:


I bought a wonderful pansy/viola this weekend.
It's called Rebecca and is blue and yellow but pale the scent is
absolutely wonderful and i could smell the three plants i bought all the
way home in the car!! The warmer they are the more the fragrance comes
out and I have to say I find many violas /pansies don't have any
discernible scent

I bought a planter of mini-violas last year. The plants sat by my
front door all winter with no flowers. I think they may have been a
bit dry, so when warmer weather came I watered them and within a week
they were in full flower, and beautifully scented.
In garden centres I go round displays of cyclamen and pansies picking
up plants and smelling them. Some have scent, many do not,
particularly cyclamen.

Pam in Bristol