topic Re: Spring violets in Community Spirit

Spring violets

ecar3483 — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:45:14 GMT

I didn't so much buy a house as inherit a garden.

The "I'll grow anywhere, given an opportunity", purple.

The slightly more sedate white, which, on the whole, prefers sheltered spots

And the pink, which grows in one place only and lends me to believe that when it comes to successful transplanting, I don't have a green thumb,.

Re: Spring violets

imastawka — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:52:14 GMT

I only have the purple, but they are so pretty and cute.

But, ecar You have sticky weed in amongst your pink ones

Get to it - it wil take over the world if it seeds.

^^^^this spikey stuff

You can feel that it's sticky - rip it out - poste haste

Re: Spring violets

ecar3483 — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:58:13 GMT

There's parts of the garden, like this, where I can't spray weed killer, so it's a constant battle to get rid of the sticky nuisance.

The trouble with it is, as I'm sure you already know, that it breaks really easily and if you don't get the roots out then it comes back ten fold.

It's a blessing and a curse - at least it means I spend time out in the garden.

Re: Spring violets

imastawka — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 03:07:24 GMT

Well at least you know what it is, and have been trying to get on top of it.

So, that's good.

Violets are one of my favourite flowers

Re: Spring violets

latina4621 — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 09:04:08 GMT

we have the purple and the native white

never knew they were pink violets, love the colour of the pink

Re: Spring violets

ooak3 — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:49:55 GMT

they are lovely plants

we had hundreds of the purple ones in our old house and we dug a few out when we moved now 3 years later we have a garden bed full of them again

they make the soil improve also i find because being a ground cover they keep the baking sun of the soil and the worms love that!!

im envious you have all 3 colours

Re: Spring violets

sandypas — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:21:49 GMT

Violets are one of my most favourite flowers and I love the pink - I haven't seen them before. Do they have a beautiful smell like the purple ones?

Re: Spring violets

moonflyte — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:31:29 GMT

Nodding violets are lovely. They flower all year and grow so easily in a pot.

Re: Spring violets

bluecat*dancing — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:44:37 GMT

Nodding violets are from the same family as African Violets, but, yes, they are pretty.

I have had a bumper crop of violets this year - purple, pink, and, white. They all smell divine.

Re: Spring violets

ecar3483 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 02:10:03 GMT

Yes, well, a little bit "softer". I'm not sure that's a good description.

Re: Spring violets

b3llag1na — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:40:36 GMT

The smell of violets always takes me back to my childhood - my Mum had them growing along the edges of many of her flowering garden beds, especially the shaded ones.

I don't have any here - yet!

Re: Spring violets

ecar3483 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:15:12 GMT

Garden centres should have them about now. They're in bloom so they make a nice visual display to catch the eye, and the wallet, of passing shoppers.