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David Nicholson

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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #30 on: April 08, 2018, 10:06:15 PM »
This could become the beginning of another obsession.
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2018, 05:46:25 AM »
it's already an obsession for me! ;D

Viola chaerophylloides'Beni Zuru'  is very beautiful Rudi. Is it completely acclimatised and reseeding alone?




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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #32 on: April 09, 2018, 03:05:59 PM »
Free flowering and very fragrant:
Viola chaerophylloides Beni Zuru

Congratulations - I had hardly never open flowers with all of these marvellous Japanese species.

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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2018, 04:36:06 PM »
Just  garden centre violas at my back door - but so pretty. I was given this pot as a Christmas Gift and in December the flowers were around the size of  my thumbnail - now they are  feeling very bold and the flowers are  around 2-3 cms across!  If they get any bigger they'll be pansies!

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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2018, 06:53:59 PM »
Why do we try to cultivate all these rare and tricky species when such a lovely beauty exists?

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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2018, 09:14:52 PM »
Dear friends, thank you for the kind replies. My plant had many seeds in the open garden with
and without flowers and I noted some seedlings in late autumn. Hope, that winter weather did
not kill them.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #36 on: April 10, 2018, 09:17:49 PM »
Gerd, how right you are!
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #37 on: April 11, 2018, 03:39:33 PM »
These are

Viola (alba) dalmatica in the rockgarden
and
Viola ambigua in a sand bed

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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #38 on: April 19, 2018, 08:44:25 AM »
Hi all ,

I have sown in 2016 seeds of Viola mirabilis ...
they are very well germinated ...
and now I have more that I need for myself :)

The plants starting now with flowering ! ( please look pictures )

I would offer it for swap ( maybe for other interesting Viola,Primula,Anemones )

Sorry only inside Europe

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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #39 on: April 19, 2018, 11:35:38 AM »
Just  garden centre violas at my back door - but so pretty. I was given this pot as a Christmas Gift and in December the flowers were around the size of  my thumbnail - now they are  feeling very bold and the flowers are  around 2-3 cms across!  If they get any bigger they'll be pansies!


I'll gladly support you Maggi !  ;D ;D
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #40 on: April 19, 2018, 12:13:41 PM »
 Quite so, Luc, the flower-power delivered by these little cultivars  is a great joy -and the more so since they are so "easy" !!
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #41 on: April 20, 2018, 05:29:31 AM »
Are you still growing V. ambiga in the sand, Gerd?

 the leaves of V. mirabilis are very beautiful, Hans, I have some germinations, and in miniature, they already look a little like it.

 on the other hand, are the first leaves of Viola pedatifida whole, uncut? seeds have sprouted, but I have a doubt about the species.

 Viola madchurica 'Fuji Down': I can not cultivate in the ground because of slugs or soil too clay, it sows only in pots
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #42 on: April 21, 2018, 02:45:46 PM »
I'll gladly support you Maggi !  ;D ;D
One of my favourite types is "Jackanapes" with the contrasting upper and lower petals.
These are from last winter - "bloomer pots" from a nursery so not the "true" cultivar 'Jackanapes'
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #43 on: April 25, 2018, 06:21:12 PM »
Are you still growing V. ambiga in the sand, Gerd?
 

Sorry, found your question just now (was away for one week) -

Yes, I grow Viola ambigua in a sunny position and in sand - and it does better than in ordinary garden soil.


I add some pics from the alpine house here

Gerd
« Last Edit: April 25, 2018, 06:24:04 PM by Gerdk »
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Re: viola 2018
« Reply #44 on: April 25, 2018, 06:56:55 PM »
 waouh! V. pachyrhiza ! very nice !
is it so small that you grow it in 2 pot ?

 


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