on โ05-09-2015 12:45 PM
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,.
on โ05-09-2015 12:52 PM
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
on โ05-09-2015 12:58 PM
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.
on โ05-09-2015 01:07 PM
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
on โ05-09-2015 07:04 PM
we have the purple and the native white
never knew they were pink violets, love the colour of the pink
on โ07-09-2015 06:49 AM
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
on โ07-09-2015 07:21 AM
on โ07-09-2015 10:31 AM
Nodding violets are lovely. They flower all year and grow so easily in a pot.
on โ07-09-2015 10:44 AM
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.
on โ07-09-2015 12:10 PM
Yes, well, a little bit "softer". I'm not sure that's a good description.