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A bit of colour on a dark day
Posted: November 13th, 2021, 6:52 am
by Watto
The weather is not the best but this little accent gave me a smile.
Re: A bit of colour on a dark day
Posted: November 13th, 2021, 4:33 pm
by Elmer
It is beautiful but watch the seed, this particular violet has a taproot that keeps regrowing if you don't get it all out. I had to bare root a ginkgo forest to get rid of it and somehow still have a plant of it growing in amongst the trees
Re: A bit of colour on a dark day
Posted: November 13th, 2021, 7:09 pm
by melbrackstone
They are pretty, but yes, very difficult to control once you let it flower. Seeds fly everywhere, worse than flick weed. Well that's my experience, anyway.
Re: A bit of colour on a dark day
Posted: November 14th, 2021, 5:24 am
by Watto
Yes, and Yes. Normally I don't let it flower and when it does I pick them off very quickly. Painting the leaves with Roundup is also required if it gets out.
I did enjoy it for the day though.
Re: A bit of colour on a dark day
Posted: November 14th, 2021, 1:26 pm
by Sno
They are endemic up here but are not very common , maybe the cold stops them from getting weedy . I am trying to grow some like Watto’s as accents which I collected from local seed . They grow well the first year and die off in winter then the second year they are stunted and don’t flower . From that Experience I was thinking they were more of an annual or a short lived perennial . It’s lightly snowing at the moment with chance of frost for the next two mornings .