VIOLA 'Baronne Alice de Rothschild' (Vt)
Small
Part shade
Purple
Fertile soil
Spring
100% Peat Free
Description
Viola 'Baronne Alice de Rothschild' (Vt)
Height x Spread: 15cm x 30cm
An exquisite Sweet Violet with dark purple flowers like elegant headdresses gently bobbing on slender stems above a slowly spreading mat of green leaves. Despite its small size, it is tough and hardworking, flowering from late winter into early spring. Regular deadheading will encourage further flowers.
It has a delicious scent, so plant it where you can appreciate it best such as in an external planter close to a frequently used door or a window box. Needing a fertile, preferably humus rich soil in part shade to thrive, it is a delightful addition to a woodland garden or mixed border planted beneath shrubs and roses to inject early season colour.
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