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Closer look at some of the many little Violas in our small front garden. These are all a lovely purple colour, fading to lighter purple as the colour goes inward, then a ring of very dark purple surrounding a tiny yellow centre, where the pollen bees need is. These Violas almost seem to be strung across this spot like a necklace of flowers. They have all spread from ones planted back in December on what was then almost bare earth. Now these lovely roundels of colour are surrounded by all sorts of green foliage. There are long stems from bulb plants-likely the tulips that eventually came up & have been opening daily. There’s also the serrated-edged leaves of wild strawberry plants, as well as many things just growing wild at the moment. The bit of dusky rose colour at the bottom of this photo-taken by amb- is petals of one of our Hellebores - flowers that are wonderful to have going for Winter. They will not only bloom thru the cold & snowy weather, they’ll continue to flower for many months afterward, providing more food for bees & other pollinators. Please Garden For Wildlife, however you can. Birds, bees, snails, worms, slugs (yes, they’re important, too!) & so many other insects & other living things need our help as habitats rapidly disappear, especially in suburbia, as people opt for “fuss-free” gravel or concrete slabs instead of gardens, which do require work & care. But the smallest bit of planting-a pot of flowers, watered & kept deadheaded to produce more blooms-can make a world of difference . Even a dish of water-always refreshed & kept clean (especially cleared of algae)-helps birds & even bees, who do need a drink now & then. Nature rewards us with such beauty we often take it for granted. But again, Nature needs our help, as mankind continues to wreak havoc on this planet. Please Garden for Wildlife, even a little bit. Theirs is a world worth saving…and so many of them were here long before we came along. 🙏💚~💞
Pretty #Violas all in a row in our small front #garden which is full of #Spring #flowers #plants #blooms #Garden4Wildlife #bloomscrolling #photography -by amb
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Spring has arrived. Time to harness your Sol power.
#grocerycroppers #GrowYourOwnFood #Spring #Calendula #Violas
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There’s so many kinds of flowers here, I’ll try to tell you as much as I can. All the large, bright yellow ones are Tulips, just opening. Tiny star-shaped white flowers (top left, mostly) are Scilla. The plethora of little light purple/white & magenta flowers that almost look like they have “angry little faces” are Violas. Larger, dark purple flowers near them are Pansies. Along the bottom are many clusters of Grape Hyacinths. In the centre of those some rose pink & cream coloured Hellebores are still going strong. If you’ve got a keen eye, you might see a tiny, round white flower near the lower right, to the left of some tulips: that’s a little Wild Strawberry blossom, which will eventually become a wee fruit that birds eat. The woody sticks in the middle are what’s left of our cut back Queen of Sweden Rosebush, which has been trimmed of deadwood & now is sort of like a bouquet shape. We won’t see Roses until May, though. Meanwhile there are plenty of different flowers for bees & other pollinators to choose from here. It’s wonderful to see, even if it’s all a bit chaotic. After last year’s drought, heatwave & russian sage invasion it’s a miracle-& a lot of hard gardening work by amb, tbh - that’s brought this patch back to abundant Life! With so many awful things going on in the world, we all need some Beauty to look at…& Nature, given some human help, gifts us with so much of that. Please Garden For Wildlife, however you can. They need all the help they can get, as habitats are bulldozed & built over..& man continues to ravage so much of this beautiful planet. Even if all you can do is have a pot or two of flowering plants, a dish of water (changed daily & kept clean, w/a rock for birds to hop up on in case it’s a bit deep) those things alone help so many creatures we take for granted…It was their planet long before mankind came along. And, tbh, it does us good, too, just seeing Nature’s beauty return. 🙏~tam💞
#Spring has truly sprung! Our sm. front #garden is full of so many #flowers 🐝have quite a choice! #Tulips #Violas #Pansies #Scilla & so much more #blooming on a sunny day. #Hope #bloomscrolling #Garden4Wildlife #photography -amb
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The spring flowers in my garden have begun to bloom, and gardening has become a busy task. Ｉ found a seven-spotted ladybug.
The spring flowers in my garden have begun to bloom, and gardening has become a busy task.Ｉ found a seven-spotted ladybug.
#gardening #christmasroses #muscari #violas #nemophila #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling
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Extreme closeup of two little purple Violas. Around a tiny white/yellow centre there’s deep purple, fanning out to lighter shades on their front three petals, before becoming dark purple again at those petals’ edges. Each has 2 solid deep purple petals at the back, almost velvety looking. These little flowers are surrounded with various leaves from other plants in our small front garden. In fact, the straight “stripe” of matte light green all down the right side of this photo is actually the edge of a tall, firm tulip leaf (their sturdy leaves always come up before the blooms appear). Violas and Pansies may be small flowers, but both provide much needed pollen and nectar for overwintering bees (as well as nibbles for 🐌 & slugs, which we do not discourage, as they are vital living creatures to the garden’s ecosystem). Please Garden For Wildlife, however you can.🙏~💞
Closeup of two #Violas in our #garden They look similar to Pansies, but are smaller #flowers Both kinds are still #blooming having 1st been planted months ago in what then was bare earth. Now-as our previous post shows-the patch is full of #Spring #blossoms #Garden4Wildlife #photography -amb
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The long awaited spring has arrived and flowers have started to bloom in my garden. Violas.
Christmas rose.
The long awaited spring has arrived and flowers have started to bloom in my garden.
#violas #christmasrose #violas #gardening #bloomscrolling
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It’s a breezy beautiful day here and a pleasure to be outside ☀️
#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Violas #FlowerReport #GYO
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Violas on the balcony with Mancunian blue sky and sunshine for #MacroMonday and #BlueSkyMonday
🩵🌿🤍💜🤍🌿🩵 #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #sunshine #springtime #EastCoastKin #violas #FlowerReport #Manchester #MyBalcony
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White and violet pansy
Violet pansies and irises at the cusp of blooming
Forget-me-nots and irises
Irises and one white and dark purple pansy
It’s still quite cold but I couldn’t help myself: I just had to add some hardy early bloomers to my balcony garden. Can’t wait for these irises to bloom.
#balconygarden #violas #pansy #pansies #irises #iris #forgetmenots #pottedplants #earlybloomers #frühblüher #hardyplants
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Spring is just around the corner (I keep telling myself over and over🫠)
#flowers #flowerphotography #Photography #violas
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#Oxford Music Festival: in the first half-day of two days worth of string classes, we had 21 #violins, only one #cello, no #violas, no #doubleBass. are we losing #diversity? The day included everything from tiny beginners to scary good, so not fundamentally an age effect.
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The snow has just about melted from the violas on the balcony this morning for #MacroMonday and #BlueSkyMonday
🩵🌿❄️🤍❄️🌿🩵 #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #EastCoastKin #Violas #FlowerReport #Manchester #MyBalcony
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With cold, blustery weather coming the flowers are cuddling up 😂
#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Violas #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Winter
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#SundayYellow is the start of a pansy/viola hanging basket in #MyGreenhouse as soon as it fills out I will harden it off outside.💛
#Flowers #Gardening #Violas #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Winter #GYO
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#Flower colour and #antioxidant activity of #violas (#Viola × wittrockiana) as edible flowers.
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#edibleflowers #polyphenol #pansy
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#SundayYellow is the first flower of my lemonberry pie mix violas. My violas have been a little sluggish getting started this year🤷🏼♀️
#Flowers #Gardening #Violas #Plants #GulfOfMexico #GYO #FlowerReport
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#SevenOnSunday #Violas starting to bloom, Acer on fire, sharphead #cabbage halfway there, Thanksgiving #cactus almost, #Kalanchoes budding and I am forcing my own #Amaryllis and #Rainbow 🥰
#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #GYO #FlowerReport #RetirementLife
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FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS IRISES, VIOLAS AND PRIMROSES
Celebrate #Februarybirthdays with the timeless elegance of #ArtNouveau! ✨ Think flowing lines, floral motifs like #violas, #primroses, and #irises, and the iconic style of period artists. #TAICHE www.zazzle.com/collections/...
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Violas are one of my favorite flowers 🥰 I think these are the frizzle sizzle varieties. Maybe I'll buy some seeds and try growing them in the community garden.
#gardening #pansies #violas #flowers
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#Violas or #JohnnyJumpUps, still hanging on after a week of 30 degrees, also the 1st #flowers I see in Spring. #Alpenglow on the #mountains and a couple shots of the #moon this week. #Alaska
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Good morning everyone. It’s a very wet start to the day here. These viola have settled in well and are giving me much joy near the back door. Here’s wishing you a day that brings you some joy. #gardening #gardeninglife #violas
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I’ve cropped these photos-taken by my partner-to give a closeup view of these lovely little flowers. They’re similar, but different enough for each to merit their own “portrait.” This one has 3 heart shaped petals which have a small, golden yellow centre, from which fan out streaks of reddish purple on white, with that same purple all along each petal’s edges. The colours almost look as though they’ve been painted on by an artist, in delicate brushstrokes of purple on white. Behind those 3 showy main petals are two solid colour petals of a slightly darker purple hue, a fitting “backdrop” for the bi-colourful trio in front. The flower is surrounded by an abundance of scallop-edged, green foliage. Another purple Viola is on the left, still in bud, but looking ready to burst forth in glorious colour soon, having already split open its green “cover.” Sunlight casts shadows and light across the plants in places, lending a sheen to one of the Viola’s dark purple back petals. The blurred background is mostly bare earth - evidence of the severe digging out that was necessary to rid our small garden patch of the terribly invasive russian sage: a plant so insidious & drought resistant that it all but ruined months of other plants we normally would have seen over Summer. We hope the bare ground will eventually be covered in new pansies and violas. For now it’s a treat just to see colour and flowers returning where once was nothing but a vicious, tough-to-remove carpet of russian sage plants popping up everywhere, wrecking so much of our normally multi-flowered patch. Already we’re seeing some of those suppressed wildflowers - helped by rains as much as by the difficult removal of that r. sage - rebounding slowly. For now the Pansies & Violas represent Hope. Garden for joy but also for wildlife: they need everyone’s help. ~💞
Though this Viola is similar to the first, it’s the depth of the purple - both around its tiny yellow centre and petal-edging streaks on white - that’s a richer hue. What’s more, the two “back petals” are much darker, a purple so intense it’s almost black. And, as if to add something even more extraordinary, those twin dark petals could easily be mistaken for a small butterfly’s wings, poised but partly hidden behind the main front petals. Again, there’s an abundance of scallop-edged leaves that surround this little flower in a green embrace. There may still be bare patches of earth in the blur of the upper right corner, but this bloom - and all the others my partner has taken great care to both plant and photograph- brightens the day as much as the sunlight spilling shadows and illuminating all these wonderful colours: Hope…we hope🙏 Please garden for joy, of course, but also for wildlife, wherever and however you can. ~💞
#Flowers #Violas newly planted: my partner bought a tray-full of lovely little #blooms in colours similar to the pansies planted last week. Slowly she’s bringing our once ravaged #garden back to life #photography -by my partner. #blossoms #plants #garden4wildlife #garden4joy
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Cake flowers. I love cutting special requests.
#flowers #violas #nasturtium #bloomscrolling #stumpmunkfarms #oregongrown #pnw #flowerreport
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Black violas sprouted in a pot full of pink, yellow, orange, and purple flowers.
Invader 🖤👾🖤
#violas #flowersky #weeds
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Vivacious violas & precocious pansies growing in a planter, resting on a weathered wooden chair
Vivacious violas & precocious pansies
#stunday
#bloomscrolling
#gardenscrolling
#pansies
#violas
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Collage of three violas.
Hey Johnny Jump Ups here! Another one of my beloved reseeders or #volunteers. #violas #GardenersWorld #flowersonfriday #gardeningfeed🌱
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