Re: Violets / troughs

Gene -

You may be thinking of 'Dancing Geisha' which has heavily serrated leaves
and silver veining.  The leaves are the same thin-ness and consistency as
"regular" violets.  I planted this violet in a drier bed that gets full
morning sun where there hasn't been much slug damage.  It's staying more
or less in an ever-widening clump. 

As Paul suggests, Marge probably saw V. koreana which has thick rounded
leaves that look just like the leaves of many Cyclamen species.  V.
koreana is most often sold as a rock garden plant -- it likes good
drainage.  

I have several different violet species and varieties, but have never
observed any evidence of crosses between the species.  The many varieties
of V. sororia (the common "lawn" violet) -- blue, red, white, blue and
white, the bluish-grey (or is it greyish-blue?) 'Confederate', 'Freckles'
and so forth -- come and go, each year it seems like there's more of one
than another.  I don't interpret this as an indication of crossing, but
simply that each year some plants bloom more than others.  One would
assume that crosses between varieties of V. sororia would usually result
in either "wild" blue flowers or flowers inferior to either parent.

Re: "sterile" clones -- don't many violets produce infertile flowers in
the spring and then fertile, petal-less flowers in late summer/fall?  I
seem to recall reading that in one of these books here.  I know with V.
sororia I only ever see seed pods in the fall.

Dean Sliger
Warren, Michigan, USA
Zone 6B


On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:10:40 -0500 "GeneBush" <genebush@otherside.com>
writes:
> Hello Marge,
>     Perhaps someone was looking after you on that one.... I received 
> a tray of the
> cyclamen leaf violets... think they were "Dancing... Something or 
> other". Lovely
> foliage... which the slugs devoured overnight back to the bare 
> medium in the pots.
> For some reason the plants did not recover.. not one single plant. I 
> had forgotten
> that one until you wrote.
>     There ae quite a few out there in tissue culture.
>     Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
>           around the woods - around the world
> genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marge Talt <mtalt@clark.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 1:22 AM
> Subject: Re: Violets / troughs
> 
> 
> > Gene..not Paul, but do know that some have exceptional foliage.  
> Saw
> > some with lovely variegated leaves at PVCNARGS plant exchange 
> this
> > fall - looked almost like Cyclamen leaves.  Unfortunately, having
> > drawn a high number, they were all snagged before I could get to
> > them, so the names are not in my cranium...but they do exist.  
> Might
> > also do for troughs, tho' I have no knowledge of their wandering
> > ways.
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> 
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