New, Free Plant

I planted the free plant given out during the Old Home Days Parade from our local garden center, Paul and Sandy's Too.  It is a Tourenia fournieri (Duchess series). I didn't know anything about it.  I found some information on the Learn2Grow and Gardening Pro web sites.   I also found that it was a top ten plant in the flower trials at Virginia Tech Agricultural Experiment Station in 2004. It's also called the "Florida pansy" and it looks like it pops up everywhere in following years--just like our Connecticut pansies can.

I placed it in a rectangular planter that had a bare spot. I was waiting for a perennial thyme to reappear, but it hasn't.  So now the corner of the planter will be home to this Torenia. We shall see what it will do over the next two months, prime growing time!  And next year, too...