Viola tricolor is a plant, without which it is difficult for me to imagine a garden. They never get bored, especially the variety of their varieties gives almost inexhaustible opportunities for creativity. Small and large, monotonous and multicolored, with simple petals or fancifully wavy – which only Violas not create selectors!
I like that these flowers can decorate the garden all summer. And sown seedlings in February, and the plants reveal buds already in his first spring. Now in my garden just bloom Viola – annuals: shrubs are still quite small, but one by one the flowers appear.
The plant is perennial, but is usually cultivated as a biennial. And I liked to breed overgrown Violas vegetatively: shoots of a large two-year Bush neatly laid out on a bed and sprinkle soil at the site of the formation of the outlet. They quickly take root, which allows you to get a lot of excellent planting material. The following year, in the spring, these bushes will bloom.
You can plant them almost anywhere: it is a spectacular border, an excellent background for late tulips or irises, a magnificent container plant that perfectly decorates the balcony or terrace.
They are unpretentious, they can be transplanted even flowering, and it does not affect their decorative. The only thing don’t like Viola — this water stagnation, from which they spoil or rot. On poor soil and with a lack of moisture flowers often flash, and in partial shade plants can bloom not so richly — this, perhaps, and all their wishes.