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Truly fragrant white sweet violets (V. odorata)?

Posted by liis (My Page) on
Tue, Feb 27, 07 at 16:28

Are there any? Some years ago I hopefully bought several, mostly labelled Viola odorata alba, from different places: no fragrance at all.
Some way into my exploration I started to ask if the violets about to be bought really would smell. Yes, of course, I was told, they are odoratas. Well, obviuosly the plants didn't know.
Sadly, Parma violets will not survive Swedish winters.


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RE: Truly fragrant white sweet violets (V. odorata)?

  • Posted by etii France 8 (My Page) on
    Tue, Feb 27, 07 at 17:26

Hi !

Of course there are white fragance violets ! Odorata alba, odorata c'zar blanc for example :-)Really easy going girls :o) I do wonder what kind of violet you bought if they were called odorata et hadn't any smell !!
The best thing to do is to buy fragance violets in a nursery selling them: Groves for example :o)
About Swedish winter and growing violets: well...I'm not sure it's the better place...

All the best :-)
Thierry.

Here is a link that might be useful: Groves


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RE: Truly fragrant white sweet violets (V. odorata)?

Thank you, Thierry! It may be that the odorata albas marketed here were not a good strain. The fragrance can get lost it seems.
So I will go on looking and sniffing.
The winters are no problem for the ordinary blue odoratas, they spread all over the place for me. But real Parma violets can only survive in glasshouses I have been told.


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RE: Truly fragrant white sweet violets (V. odorata)?

liis,
I have a white [fragrant] odorata seedling that hopefully will set a bunch of seed this summer. If you still haven't gotten a plant by then, and would like to try from seed, let me know and I'll send you some.

I'm guessing it would be very difficult (restrictions and such) to ship you a piece of the plant itself??? But if it isn't problematic, I could probably even do that.
Tom


 
 

 

 


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