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Re: Viola koreana

Alex Teller wrote:

> Hi Diana,
>
> I'd also like to know more about your nursery and about your gardening
> in
> general.  Privately or even better publicly, the latter because I am
> sure
> other people are fascinated too with your knowledge of the various
> subjects
> you comment on.  I have learned a lot from your answers to other
> people's
> questions.
>
> Alex
>
> Rika Art & Design wrote:
>
> > Diana L. Politika wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone have info on viola koreana?  I've sown the seed but
> > > suspect
> > > that it needs to chill. And when they survive, what are the
> > > requirements?
> > > I'd have thought a viola is a viola, however, I managed to kill an
>
> > > entire flat of viola pedatum by giving too much shade and water.
> What
> > >
> > > a  twisted trick of God to offer a viola that grows in dry, poor,
> > > gravelly soil. So now I wonder if koreana has any secrets.
> > >
> > > The Greenhouse Nursery
> > > 81 South Bagley Creek Road
> > > Port Angeles, WA  98362
> >
> >  HI Diana,
> >
> > Violas do like a chilling period, however, everything I've ever read
>
> > about them says that they need darkness to germinate, which is odd,
> as
> > most cold stratified seeds need light,
> > Hope this helps.
> > I'd like to know more about you and your nursery.  Please write me
> > privately.
> > Rika

   Alex,
I think you may have wanted to address you note to me... Rika...  If
not, I apologize.

I'm always willing to share my knowledge.

If you are interested in my nursery and in my gardening, here's my
story>>>

Since I was a small child, I loved to garden.

I started with seeds and other propagation techniques six or seven years
ago as a hobbyist.
I started reading everything I could about plants, horticulture and the
like.   I always found it amazing that  such large and wonderful plants
could grow from such a tiny thing as a seed.

In addition, I joined many Horticultural groups with seed exchanges,
such as the Hardy Plant Society in the UK, the Hardy Plant Society ,
Mid-Atlantic Group, The North American Rock Garden Society.

When You donate seeds, you get even a better choice of seed that's sent
to you, with plants that you've never heard of, some of which you've
searched for for years.

Then, of course, you need to find out about how to germinate them.
I've tried to germinate some genii, species, etc. seeds for three or
four years, just because I needed to master a certain technique.

My garden was really beautiful five years ago. (I had the time to tend
to it), and several people asked me to create gardens for them.

A landscaping firm was born.

Then, still nuts about plants and growing them, I started to grow for my
own and my client's needs.  Of course, I grew too much and too many....
And the funniest thing about growing plants in a nursery situation, they
really propagate themselves...(Outgrowing containers, seeding around,
needing to be divided, etc)... And so a nursery was born.

We're just about to mail out our first mail-order caltalogue - unusual
plants with great foliar value are our specialty.  We're located in zone
7a in Long Island.

Rika Bronsther
Willow Pond Nursery
P.O. Box 192
Hewlett, NY 11557

Soon - Catalogue on line
willowpondnursery.com
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