Violet Bliss
Well, violet ordering season is just about over. Many vendors online do not want to mail leaves and plants in extreme hot or cold weather so even with a heat pack, you are taking a chance your violets will not survive if you order when the temps fall below 40 degrees.
But, if you've been propagating and starting plants all summer, you probably will soon have more than you have room for anyway. You don't grow violets on this level unless you are really good at it. It takes a lot of knowledge of them to keep them going and even the most enthusiastic grower will realize at some point that very few of them are hardy enough to last for years and years. I don't hardly believe it when I hear someone say they've had Aunt Millie's violet for 40 years. Really? I've never had one single violet last for more than 3 years so far.
Stuff just happens. I heard a grower say once that they just buy a plant to take leaves to grow them in their own growing conditions. If the plant lives a long life, that's just a plus. I've had healthy looking violets bloom once and then appear to just give up, go from bad to worse and never figure out what I did wrong to make them die.
I probably didn't do anything wrong with some of them, they sometimes come from severe neglect in the box stores before you get them and just don't survive no matter what you do. That's why the smart violet lover always takes a couple of healthy leaves to start their own plants. Your plants are more likely to survive if they have started in your growing conditions to begin with.
Bliss is... propagating and growing your favorites and babies to share all winter long knowing that when spring comes, you will have an abundance of blooms and an abundance of violets! In my opinion, that's violet bliss!
But, if you've been propagating and starting plants all summer, you probably will soon have more than you have room for anyway. You don't grow violets on this level unless you are really good at it. It takes a lot of knowledge of them to keep them going and even the most enthusiastic grower will realize at some point that very few of them are hardy enough to last for years and years. I don't hardly believe it when I hear someone say they've had Aunt Millie's violet for 40 years. Really? I've never had one single violet last for more than 3 years so far.
Stuff just happens. I heard a grower say once that they just buy a plant to take leaves to grow them in their own growing conditions. If the plant lives a long life, that's just a plus. I've had healthy looking violets bloom once and then appear to just give up, go from bad to worse and never figure out what I did wrong to make them die.
I probably didn't do anything wrong with some of them, they sometimes come from severe neglect in the box stores before you get them and just don't survive no matter what you do. That's why the smart violet lover always takes a couple of healthy leaves to start their own plants. Your plants are more likely to survive if they have started in your growing conditions to begin with.
Bliss is... propagating and growing your favorites and babies to share all winter long knowing that when spring comes, you will have an abundance of blooms and an abundance of violets! In my opinion, that's violet bliss!
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