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Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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Posted by jenny_in_SE_PA 6b/7a Sunset 32 (My Page) on Mon, Oct 28, 02 at 10:04
| In early summer, I had purchased 3 of these plants (at least that is what they were labeled as and they were on sale) and I planted all 3 in a round 15" diameter shallow plastic bowl planter. They had pretty much finished their blooms by then but they kept a nice lush growth of foliage. The foliage is slowly starting to droop now that it has gotten cooler and low and behold, what do I find? Seeds!
Now granted, I know for you Viola officiandos, this is par for the course, but this is my first time growing violets in a container as a perennial (after many years of pansies and viola tricolor in containers and growing up with wild violets out in the yard of the house I grew up in). I've never actually seen seeds on a violet before and this was the neatest thing to find! I am not really a seed person but this find made it sortof worth keeping a big bowl of foliage around....lol
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RE: Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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| That's what I like to see - somebody without a question; somebody just sharing an observation; somebody sharing their enthisiasm and communicating a simple pleasure. Great stuff, Jennie! Thanks. |
RE: Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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| Mike - I guess I never envisioned the seeds forming in this manner. I always imagined some sort of roundish seed pod. Now I can see why these plants spread so quickly... :-) |
RE: Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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I call the sororias the cuckoos of the violet world, they tend to pop up in everyone elses pot, being so vigorouse they will soon outgrow other species like odorata and eventualy kill them, so take care, I guess these are the only violets that I have the heart to pull out of a pot and throw away.
May I reiterate what Mike said that it is refreshing to hear such exuberance for the Violet. Clive Groves |
RE: Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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| Clive - I happened to find these on sale and since I had created a little shade area on my balcony with some fragile ferns, hosta, lily of the valley, etc., and I wanted some spring blooming flowers, I went for them! To me, violets are always a pleasant surprise in spring and I'm always excited to see them popping up when very little else is growing at that time! |
RE: Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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| Hey Jenny, Did you plant the seeds? Did they come true to 'Freckles'? -Robin |
RE: Viola sororia 'Freckles' seeds!!
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| Robin - I let the seeds fall where they wanted. I have some leaves coming up now and I'm not sure if they are from the original plant crowns or from the seeds, but I'll see soon what the blooms look like. |
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