Pansy or Petunia?

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    An easy one for the profs here i'd imagine.
    One of my neglected baskets from last year. What has survived the winter?
     
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    Can't really see, can you get a closer picture of the plant. It doesn't look like a pansy but it's too far away to properly see.
     
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      That picture is shocking, I'm sorry.
       
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        So you should be :heehee:
         
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          A pansy I would have thought, it's very unlikely you would see a petunia in bloom this early. :)
           
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          I have three name tags in the basket from last year. I ruled out one, so had to ask about these two as the arnt too dissimilar (to me)!
           
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          so what was the third one you discounted? As that looks like neither pansy or petunia
           
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          I still think it's a Pansy, the leaves don't look right for a Petunia. :)
           
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          Looks like a pansy to me. White flower, yellow centre, shiny leaves. Also, v unlikely for a petunia to come through the winter in the open, whilst a pansy would be fine....
           
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            The 3rd was lobelia, but these flowers are very small.
             
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