Little smiling faces.

Good morning Spritz, thanks for the lovely smiles ♡

I much prefer them to pansies and your perennials are something I must look for ......

Wow! What a collection. Beautiful.

I prefer them to pansies, too. You have such lovely ones there, I can't pick a favourite. I plant these in containers but they rarely perform for me. I thought they were meant to keep going through the Summer. I do try to keep on top of deadheading but it doesn't seem to be enough. The SAS seem far too fond of these pretty little plants. Any tips on how to keep mine, Spritz?

Gorgeous colours and who would not smile seeing all their pretty little faces;0))

I have the Viola odorata. Didnt know what it was before.
Thank you Spitz. Will now make a label for it.

Some gorgeous violas there B. I bought two today funnily enough....Buttercup and Jackanapes. Now, here's a question for you...are they all edible? It never tells you on the labels!

Tuesday, I do dead-head, as often as I can, but other than that, you could try cutting them back and hope for new growth?

Karen, I believe so, as many chefs/cooks on the TV and in books put viola flowers in salads or drinks!

Diane, pleased to be of help. :-)

Pam, you're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed them.

Some lovely photos Sh. I love the colour of the "Elworthy Bright Eyes".

Rebecca is still one of my faves. Love violas too. but don't have that many.

I don't suppose you've got much space to grow them, have you?

no sadly and I am plagued by the large brown slugs this year :o( OH not overly keen on pots either!

Sbg, I'm not overly keen on pots either but my OH has difficulty hearing me ...... Therefore we have in excess of 75 pots/troughs and baskets dotted around. I declared the garden "FULL" many years ago, but what does a man have to do? Please don't say "move to a house with a bigger garden" . <]:-))

PS It was our neighbour who told us how many pots we have, when we asked him to water for us, whilst on holiday one year.

I picked over my Violas yesterday Spritz. They are indeed so very rewarding. I am a potoholic so they are among my favourites in pots. You have an in depth knowledge about violas. I never realised there were so many types

Interesting, isn't it. I dead-headed mine yesterday, too.

I daren't count my containers, AlanB! I'd love to have hanging baskets as well; but as we live in a listed house, we're not allowed to attach anything to the walls. Did you know there are trailing violas available now? ;-)

that made me smile AlanB. Oh daren't say too much though as how many bikes does one man need?

I keep re arranging mine and have winter pots that go out round the back out of site and bring forward the summer ones.

Seen the trailing ones but only in a dirty yellow that didn't set my world on fire. :o)

That's a shame Spritzh. So you can't put brackets on walls. ....... How do I get my house listed ... lol. You've just given me an great idea for a blog that could go "viral" ..... Especially if I put up a cash prize ...Watch this space !

Sbg. I only have one mountain bike in my garage, but probably FIVE sets of golf clubs.

<) :-))

Sbg, I have some lovely purple ones in one of my pots!

Alan, you really wouldn't want a listed house, well, not unless your Council Planning Officer was a little more 'lenient' than ours. :-(

Why have you got five sets, by the way? Did you forget you had any and buy the others? LOL. I shall indeed 'watch this space' - intriguing...

Great blog Barbar, I love violas, problem is so do our local wood pigeons:-( They didn't seem to fancy Alba though, but something has attacked them, they're such poor raggedy things this year. I don't suppose the incessant rain over winter helped either. I think Etain may be my favourite viola, but I do have rebecca as it's my daughter's name and some have a lovely perfume too:-)

Love them all, and many moons ago had a huge collection, sadly all gone now, we tend to grow them in pots because they do not do well in our soil...my favourite was Rebecca Etain, and Elaine Quin...happy memories thanks for this blog.

Can't you grow V. cornuta, Dd?

Ha ha, I see I've turned you into an elephant in my previous comment Barbara ....sorry about that:-)) I think I'm must buy more violas now .... your fault:-)

One of my pots had a sudden irreversible collapse and it turned out to be whitefly when I looked under the leaves. Fortunately it was separated from the other pots. So I shall be looking for a replacement if we get out today and we get to a GC.

Spritzhenry, I apologise, I didn't answer your question re- five sets golf of clubs. .... I keep buying new clubs hoping I'll find a set of clubs that hit the ball straight ... lol.

Yes we do grow V cornuta..

LOL, Alan!

Good, Dd. I thought you might. :-D)

Ba, I shall forgive you, this time only. x

Yes, do - and look at Elizabeth McGregor's website for a real drool! ;-D