These beautiful purple sweet violets grow here on our farm (Viola odorata). They are gorgeous when in bloom.
The sweet-scented violet appears at the end of February. Violets are a first sign of spring.
Violet is the diminutive form of the Latin Viola, the Latin form of the Greek name Ione. There is a legend that when Jupiter changed his beloved Io into a white heifer for fear of Juno's jealousy, he caused these modest flowers to spring forth from the earth to be fitting food for her, and he gave them her name.
The familiar leaves are heart-shaped, slightly downy, especially beneath, on stalks rising alternately from a creeping rhizome or underground stem, the blades of the young leaves rolled up from each side into the middle on the face of the leaf into two tight coils.
The Violet propagates itself, also, in another way by throwing out scions, or runners, from the main plant each summer after flowering, and these in turn send out roots and become new plants. They can be container grown.
Violet flowers may be picked when in bloom and pressed and dried for your favorite craft project. A yummy jelly can be made from flower petals.
Offer is for 10 Bare Root Plants.
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