There is no farina (white meal) on the flower so it can be grown outside without rain spoiling the flower.īorder (B) The original garden auricula which is strong, sturdy and well able to withstand weather.
The flower is shaded from dark to lighter at the edges.
Violas will enjoy sun or part shade, but in hotter drier parts of the country choose a semi shaded spot.Alpine (A) These are either light or gold centred. We use ‘Shropshire Seaweed’ – a liquid feed that gives us excellent results and is available to purchase from the nursery or online. Above all ensure plants are kept watered in hot, dry weather and if growing in pots, apply a liquid feed regularly. Violas can be susceptible to attack from aphids, slugs and snails, therefore treat with appropriate organic solution on first sight. Cut back to within 2 inches from the base in early autumn to encourage fresh new basal growth and to deter pests from overwintering in their crowns. Violas need regular deadheading to maintain their long season of flowering and they benefit from a light trim and tidy in July if appearing leggy.
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If planting in the open ground, make sure the soil is well cultivated, weed free and ensure you incorporate plenty of organic matter. So if planting in a pot go for something at least 12” (30cm) deep and use a proprietary brand of potting compost.
Not only are they easy to grow, adaptable, robust and hardy they also provide the gardener with a seemingly endless and abundant flowering season, wonderful scent and such an array of flower colours, shapes and sizes, trying to choose is like being a child in a sweet shop.įor your Violas to flourish, they need a good depth of soil for their roots to spread into. We grow a number of Violettas at the nursery, of which Little David, Dawn and Rebecca are to name but a few. These new strains were given the group name of Violettas. It was famous plantsman, William Robinson, who recognised this plant as a new strain of Viola and featured them in a subsequent addition of the Garden Magazine. Dr Stuart bred a pure white Viola, entirely without rays or whiskers and with the added bonus of a particularly fine fragrance. It was from this period that the ever popular Viola ‘Maggie Mott emerged, with its silvery mauve flowers and superb fragrance, a variety that we still hold in our collection today.Īround 1875 further developments in breeding led to the introduction of what we now know as Violettas. Violas had a number of benefits over pansies: plants were more dwarf and compact in growth, produced an abundance of smaller flowers (making them more weather resistant) and were reliably hardy and perennial. It’s all down to parentage: the Pansy had been developed from Viola tricolour (our native Pansy) whereas this new wave of Violas stemmed from Viola lutea and Viola cornuta. Violas didn’t emerge from this flurry of breeding work until the late 1860’s and are, in fact, quite distinct from the pansies that came before. Rapid developments in their breeding led to ever larger and fancier flowers, as gardeners toiled in pursuit of the perfect exhibition Pansy. Like Auriculas, Violas have had a long and colourful history, most notably during the 19th century when their popularity soared.
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