Are they really coming out now? I do hope so. Got my first Chicks today so it must be spring. Will wander down the garden to see what else dares show its face...
I took the photo this morning, they grow on the verge outside my cottage - they have been opening in small numbers f or the past 10 days I guess, another week and the verge will have a purple haze to it.
Yes, I love them, they arrived from nowhere a few years ago. I fancy seeds were on Muntjack hooves. Certainly when I first noticed the distinctive heart shaped leaves in the grass, they seemed to follow the same trail as the deer tracks I often notice in wet weather. Too fanciful?
They could always be escapees, Along with my Auricula habit, I did have a penchant for Violets, and used to but plants from a nursery in Devon that excelled at them, mostly the more tender Parma Violet types, all frill and nose numbing noxiousness. I did acquire a few named V. odorata too then, and its possible they seeded over the fence as things do.
I am very protective of them, and God help the hapless council worker with his strimmer or mower that happens on the verge outside my place, they soon get moved along with me ranting about protected species and wild flowers.
Purple and Green always works well doesnt it, One of the reasons I like all those purple alliums, they just look so good against all the emerging foliage
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They could always be escapees, Along with my Auricula habit, I did have a penchant for Violets, and used to but plants from a nursery in Devon that excelled at them, mostly the more tender Parma Violet types, all frill and nose numbing noxiousness. I did acquire a few named V. odorata too then, and its possible they seeded over the fence as things do.
I am very protective of them, and God help the hapless council worker with his strimmer or mower that happens on the verge outside my place, they soon get moved along with me ranting about protected species and wild flowers.