Violky are not only beautiful, but also really frost -resistant flowers. They are very grateful ornamental plants if you give them a chance. How to grow them?
Violka, pansy or violet?
It is soft, fragrant, yet surprisingly resistant if they face frosts. Fialka, more precisely Violka, is one of the plants that one can easily love. The flowers have a gentle look, but colors pass from classic purple to white to distinctly yellow or red with charming drawing.
You can choose among large flowers of pansies and species with very small flowers, which can brighten the flower bed and box. They look great in combination with other plants.
You may be surprised that a lot of Violek varieties are edible. So you don’t have to shine a couple or dessert. Such a beautiful decoration immediately promotes ordinary food to festive food. In addition, fragrant violets have always been used in folk medicine, perhaps.
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The best known is the garden, Viola × Wittrockiana. It will please you with large flowers and an incredible range of colors.
Violka horned has smaller flowers, but blooms steadily from spring to autumn. It is very subtle and makes sense only in larger numbers.
Who is looking for a scent should give a chance of violet fragrant, which begins to bloom in March. Also popular is the violka three -color, known more like wild pansy.
Each species has its charm and it is up to you whether you choose distinctive colors on the flower bed or fine tones in the rock gardens and the paths.
How to grow violky?
If you want to have a colorful great this autumn, it is ideal to reach for seedlings now. They are planted right now, because the violet will take good root and before the winter can be able to deploy the first flowers.
You can buy pansies and other violets as seedlings and seeds for sowing. The sowing is done all summer until September, but the plants will bloom until spring.
Choose semi -shady habitats, but the sun can withstand if the soil does not dry. However, Violky hates a hearth. If you place them on too exposed habitat, in the summer you will have to rotate properly to survive.
Ideal is light and permeable soil that keeps moisture but does not grow. Violky needs regular watering, especially when it is warm, and once a month less fertilization, preferably compost or a weaker fertilizer solution.
Tips for beautiful flowers
In order to bloom for a long time and richly, it is worth removing blooming flowers. The plant then does not put the strength to form the seeds, but in new buds. The hibernation can handle because they are frost -resistant, but it will help them easily cover with twinkles.
Young plants will appreciate even a little leaves as protection against holomraz. In the following years, they will be better rooted and more mature to make the winter without help. In the spring, it will reward you with even richer flowering.
