Re: Violets

In a message dated 11/23/00 11:24:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
deanslgr@juno.com writes:

<< 
 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.  

If anyone is growing V. koreana in zone 4 please say.  This has died here 
numerous times over the winter.

  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. >>

I don't know the origins of "sterile" clones but they do exist.  I have a an 
ever expanding clump of what looks the the menace violet here, Viola 
papilionacea.  The sterile clump was purchased at an arboretum sale without a 
species name on the label.

My "sterile" clump is in the rock garden where there are no other violets.  
There has not be one "child' in four or five years.  As far as I have 
observed, there are no seeds either cleistogamous or any other way.  This is 
passed around by rock gardeners as I have been offered one previously. I did 
not believe it would be sterile but it definitely is sterile.

There are always some plants passed from gardener to gardener that do not 
seem to be in thetrade.  For many years it would have been variegated leaf 
forms of perennials and shrubs.  Now they are collected and sold by both 
speicalists and general nurseries.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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