thanks for your replies. gardengirl16 sounds like you have the same violas as me. oh well looks like i have had my moneys worth as mine too have flowered through wind rain and snow.
I grow violas every year, and if left they will still produce the odd flower after season. I never deadhead mine, some of the seed pods burst and new plants spring up here and there but I mostly collect the seeds, dry them and replant them when its the right time of year. I just did all my summer violas yesterday. I can keep the same plants going this way year upon year, and I can single out the odd hybrid/cross pollenation in the process.
They really are one of the most hardy plants ive ever grown.
I planted a small border of winter flowering violas last autumn and although the plants were small they flowered all winter, even through heavy snow. Once the weather started to warm, the plants filled out and now I have a dense border of colour and they are still going strong. You can see them on my own website called Gardeners Word. The violas have such a lovely perfume when they are grown together like this. But I wonder if it is a fluke that they have done so well. They get a fair amount of sun (when there is sun!) and shade throughout the morning.
i have just bought some victorian violas from holker garden festival they are summer flowering but the advice i was given may be of some use
1. plant in John Innes no2
after flowering all summer they need to rest so cut back hard and top up with new compost, so if yours have flowered all winter untill now i would cut them back,repot if they look congested and give them a feed. you may be able to split them im not sure about that.
violas are not annuals like the bedding pansy they should last for a long time if looked after
My violas have stayed in bloom much later than usual this year - I've put it down to the cool weather - as soon as we started getting strong sunshine last week the violas began to look tired - they're in pots on the terrace, so I'm going to take them out of the pots tomorrow and pot them on individually in John Innes No 2 and keep them in a cool corner until autumn, then hopefully they'll have perked up again ready for next winter. Fingers crossed
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well my violas started to die off a few weeks ago and I chopped off all the foliage re potted, fed and will see if anything grows back. They were definately pansies and when I re potted them there were actually 3 in each pot.
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thanks for your replies. gardengirl16 sounds like you have the same violas as me. oh well looks like i have had my moneys worth as mine too have flowered through wind rain and snow.
They really are one of the most hardy plants ive ever grown.
I planted a small border of winter flowering violas last autumn and although the plants were small they flowered all winter, even through heavy snow. Once the weather started to warm, the plants filled out and now I have a dense border of colour and they are still going strong. You can see them on my own website called Gardeners Word. The violas have such a lovely perfume when they are grown together like this. But I wonder if it is a fluke that they have done so well. They get a fair amount of sun (when there is sun!) and shade throughout the morning.
http://gardeners-word.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-perfumed-garden.html.
do you mean violas or winter flowering pansy
When I bought them they were labelled winter flowering violas and they have smaller flowers than I one usually sees on pansies, so I mean violas.
i have just bought some victorian violas from holker garden festival they are summer flowering but the advice i was given may be of some use
1. plant in John Innes no2
after flowering all summer they need to rest so cut back hard and top up with new compost, so if yours have flowered all winter untill now i would cut them back,repot if they look congested and give them a feed. you may be able to split them im not sure about that.
violas are not annuals like the bedding pansy they should last for a long time if looked after
My violas have stayed in bloom much later than usual this year - I've put it down to the cool weather - as soon as we started getting strong sunshine last week the violas began to look tired - they're in pots on the terrace, so I'm going to take them out of the pots tomorrow and pot them on individually in John Innes No 2 and keep them in a cool corner until autumn, then hopefully they'll have perked up again ready for next winter. Fingers crossed
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Breathtaking violas, Valerie. If I could, I´d plant an acre of Violas of
all kinds. Has anybody ever seen (live) the rosulate Violas?
Well my violas started to die off a few weeks ago and I chopped off all the foliage re potted, fed and will see if anything grows back. They were definately pansies and when I re potted them there were actually 3 in each pot.