… I love them and this beauty was snapped up Some weeks ago from Thorpe’s Nursery … and no, I am not sponsored by them!
This is Viola ‘Rebecca’ and she is and two of her sisters are filling my whole garden with delicious scent that is mailing with the scent from the roses. Our garden is so open that this is quite a task considering how tiny they are. Four to eight inches 4 by 8 inches in height and spread, and flowering in later Spring to early Autumn. They like moist, but well drained soil. Their beautiful creamy-white, mauve-streaked pansy like flowers with clumps of dar green, heart-shaped leaves make me imagine it would be a perfect outfit for any tiny fairies in the garden.
An alpine, they are suitable for borders and path edging, rockeries, gravel gardens and containers, which is where they are planted in an old Butler sink that we un-earned from the top Hebe Garden covered in mud, weeds and junk. It’s heavy it took two burly men and me to move it the 30 feet to sit in the raised brick patio.
I need more Viola in my life.
Hugs
Kay xx
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