Garden violets - beautiful, modest and unpretentious flowers. Besides all of the known pansies or Vittrok's violet exists also many other types - not less attractive: fragrant, horned, papilionaceous, manchzhursky, etc. They find broad application in landscaping.
Instruction
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Garden violets are very demanded in landscaping:
- as pochvopokrovny plant: fragrant, papilionaceous violet;
- for ampelous cultivation: Williams's violet, violet horned and Vittrok's viol;
- for container floriculture: Vittrok's viol, violet papilionaceous;
- for landing near reservoirs: marsh and papilionaceous violet;
- for creation of bright, contrast groups on lawn: fragrant violet, papilionaceous, white, Altai;
- for decoration of rock gardens and rokariyev: fragrant violet, Altai, manchzhursky, motylkovyya and graceful.
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Viola Vittroka
Description: it is grown up as biennial plant; depending on the nature of coloring it is subdivided on: one-color, bichromatic and multi-color.
Features: cold-resistant, hygrophilous, easily transfers change in the blossoming state.
Conditions for growth: solar place or easy shadow; fertile soil.
Grades:
- Alpen See: dark-violet flowers with yellow peephole; - Firnengold: yellow flowers with dark peephole.
Ampelous grades:
- Violet Wing: three-colored - white, yellow, violet; - Golden Yellow: yellow flowers.
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Horned violet
Description: expands dense, pyshnotsvetushchy pillow up to 50 cm in the diameter; in height grows to 10-30 cm. Flowers happen violet, lilac, blue coloring to yellow peephole, blossoms from May to September. Creeping look.
Features: the most dolgotsvetushchy view from all, abundant blossoming - up to 60 flowers on one bush; winters without shelter.
Conditions for growth: easy shadow, moderately fertile soil, the dry site without stagnation of water.
Grades:
- "Doll", height is 10 cm, white-red; - "Perfection", height is up to 14 cm; - "The Gzhel patterns", height are 18 cm, dark blue-light blue coloring; - "Princesses Krim", pale yellow flowers.
Ampelous grades:
- "Cool Veyv the Mix", lashes up to 75 cm; - "Old Spice the Mix", diameter of bush is 30 cm.
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Papilionaceous violet
Description: plant with short escapes, height of 15-20 cm. Flowers are violet, white and pink, blossoms in May-June.
Features: shade-loving, hygrophilous.
Conditions for growth: damp place; the trained, friable soil.
Grades:
- Elza Cumbs, white; - Dark Treckles, spotty; - Ruba, blue-violet; - Freechles white with blue specks.
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Altai violet
Description: long stalks, in height plant of-20 cm. Blossoms in May and repeatedly in August. Flowers blue-violet with yellow peephole or white with blue strips.
Features: obilnotsvetushchy, cold-resistant.
Conditions for growth: solar place; the nutritious, trained soil.
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Violet fragrant (candy)
Description: pochvopokryvny the look reaching in height of 15-20 cm, diameter of bush of 30 cm; blossoms in May blue-violet flowers. The most part of season - dekorativnolistvenny.
Features: quickly expands, is not afraid of trampling, towards the winter leaves with green foliage; needs the shelter in midland.
Conditions for growth: fertile and friable soil, solar place or easy half-shade.
Grades:
- Christmas, Alba - white; - Goeur d'Alsace is pink; - Red Charm is purple; - Flore Pleno - terry flowers; - Marie Louise is terry, pale blue.
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Marsh violet
Description: blossoms in May-June light-violet, lilac and white flowers. Height is 5-15 cm.
Features: the vlagolyubiva, quickly expands.
Conditions for growth: sour, clay soil; to light it is undemanding.
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Viol of Williams
Description: hybrid of viol of Vittrok and violet horned.
Height is 30 cm. Bright, contrast coloring.
Grades:
- "Pearl falls", white-blue "Bengal light", zhelto-bardovaya-"Eye of tiger", etc.
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Rare species of garden violets
Manchzhursky violet. Height of 6-20 cm, blossoms in May-June dark-violet flowers. Poecilophyllous grades are especially beautiful.
Graceful violet. Height of 10-20 cm, blossoms in May and repeatedly in August-September blue-lilac and yellow flowers. Prefers half-shade and nutritious soil.
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Seeds of all garden violets can be sowed to the open ground - they well ascend and quickly grow. But crops on seedling allow to accelerate blossoming process.
On seedling sow from the middle of February to the middle of March. The soil - universal soil for flower seedling, it is in addition possible to add coarse-grained sand.
Fill landing capacity with the earth and spread out seeds on surface. Humidify by means of the spray and slightly powder with the soil or sand. Cover with film and put to the warm dark place.
Shoots appear within 7-10 days. Clean the shelter and put capacity to the light place.
Whenever possible dive in April in individual glasses of 200-300 ml.
To the open ground land at the end of May at distance 15×15 cm. Bury root neck at 1 cm. It is abundant water disembarkation.
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Care for garden violets
Weeding and scarification during sozon. Watering: as required, in the absence of rains; use water warm and soft (it is desirable rain). Fertilizing: once a month complex mineral fertilizer. Preparation for winter: to zamulchirovat peat, cover thermophilic grades with fir twigs.