Pansies: Gift from the Garden Fairies

According to Alice T. A. Quackenbush, the pansies are a gift to us from the garden fairies.

I did wonder about that and suspected that there might be a connection between them. I would guess they are also somehow involved with little violas, too. 

The evidence...

"Once the fairies were making ready for their annual midsummer night's revel and wanted to do something to make the world