2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Multi-colored eyes modestly look at the world from undersized bushes, marveling at the beauty and breadth of the surrounding world and symbolizing meditation. Even tall grasses, proudly looking at it from the height of their growth, cannot hide a small blue-eyed viola or a tricolor violet. Viola does not pay attention to their arrogance, she is so far from sinful passions. Violet came here not to settle scores with the world, she came to decorate and give life to it. Therefore, all her thoughts are about us, people
The article is dedicated to the haciendochka with the nickname "Ayuta". Anyuta, like the flowers of "pansies", looks at the world openly and trustingly. Her sincerity, cheerfulness and energy permeate the site, making it attractive and cozy at home. Thank you, Ayuta-Anya, for being with us!
Pansy habit *
An unbranched thin brownish root extends almost vertically into the ground. A low stem (from 10 to 45 cm), sometimes there are several of them, erect or creeping, hollow inside, pubescent with hairs or naked, departs from the root, holding leaves of two different forms. Below, on long petioles, there are broad-ovate leaves; at the top, on short petioles, there are oblong-lanceolate ** leaves. Each leaf has two stipules.
The corolla of the tricolor violet flower consists of 5 free petals, the color of which is predominantly blue. The two upper petals, larger in size, are bent upward and provided with a small nail at the base. The two middle ones diverge obliquely to the sides and are colored like the upper ones, or a little lighter. They partially cover some of the upper petals. The bravest lower petal has a bluish spur and is colored white or yellow at the base.
Small light yellow or light brown seeds are arranged in a round-three-sided greenish capsule. One box holds up to three thousand seeds that remain viable for two years.
Growing
Fashion for clothes, hairstyles, footwear, female figure and much more is changing, but flowers "pansies" never go out of fashion. Their unpretentiousness, vitality and indifference to frost, rich palette of petals colors have forever bewitched the love of gardeners.
In nature, this plant is perennial, but gardeners grow it as a biennial. It will decorate a flower garden of any configuration and purpose. It can be a city flower bed in a central square or a quiet alley; balcony containers or flower pots on the windowsill; rabatka, front garden, lawn at their summer cottage.
A feature of the two-year-old viola is the opportunity to admire its flowers twice in one spring-autumn season: in spring and early summer, and then in late summer and autumn. For spring flowering, seeds are sown in summer, planting seedlings in August-September, and for autumn flowering, sowing is carried out in winter in greenhouses, planting seedlings in spring. Today, the viola is often used as an annual. Farms that grow flower seedlings sow in winter and sell ready-made seedlings in May, which will bloom by mid-summer, that is, in the very heat. So that the "pansies" are not shallow from the sun's rays, it is better to plant seedlings in the shade of tall plants or under trees. Then large flowers will delight you until September.
Two seeding options
If you do not use purchased seedlings, and you yourself want to grow "pansies" from seeds, you can use two sowing options:
1. In June, we sow seeds in an unheated greenhouse. We plant the grown bushes in their permanent place in the garden in August so that they take root well before leaving for the winter.
Green bushes emerge from under the snow in early spring, hardened and brave, and bloom profusely throughout May. If you create partial shade for the plants, they will continue to bloom in the summer. In October, we cut off all peduncles, leaving only dense rosettes of leaves. Having overwintered perfectly, viola will delight with abundant flowering one more spring.
In June, you can replace last year's fading viola with fresh seedlings, or plant any annuals in their place.
2. Sowing is carried out in January in a heated greenhouse, or on a home windowsill. After carrying out the procedures for hardening the plant, we plant the seedlings in open ground at the end of April. Frost-resistant and hardened viola will calmly endure late frosts if they suddenly happen.
The January viola will bloom throughout the spring and summer. In the fall, we again cut off all the peduncles, leave the dense rosettes and say to the plant: "See you next spring!"
It is advisable to plant the viola together with tulips. If, due to weather conditions, tulips are suddenly late with flowers, fearless and long-blooming "pansies" will help out the look of the flower bed.
Note:
* Habitus - the appearance of the plant.
** Lanceolate - narrowed upwards, pointed.
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