Viola x 'Purple Showers'
Royal Velvet Pansy
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Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Description
Viola 'Purple Showers' is very appropriately named! The large 2 inch electric purple flowers will shower your landscape nearly all spring and summer! Blooms profusely in spring and then continues with sporadic flowering until fall. The 8" flower stems rise nicely above the foliage and make excellent cut flowers.
Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Blooming
In colder climates, Violas are valuable for spring to summer color. In more mild climates, Violas provide color in winter as well. Deadhead plant to promote blooming.
Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Growth
Anuuals, biennials, evergreen, semi-evergreen, deciduos perennials and some deciduous subshrubs. Violas can withstand full sun to partial shade with few exceptions. Violas make great bedding plants, but excel in containers as well. Plants can exhibit weed-like behavior. Self-seeding occurs at fairly high rates.
Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Planting
In cold climates, Violas can be sown indoors during the winter for spring bloom. In warmer climates, plugs should be planted in fall for flowering from winter to spring.
Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Pest
Slugs, snails, aphids, and violet leaf midge. Viola is also vulnerable to powdery mildew, crown and root rot, rust, gray mold, spot anthracnose, fungal leaf spots, downy mildew, and mosaic viruses.
Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Interesting facts
Viola is found worldwide. There are around 500 known species.
Royal Velvet Pansy (Viola x 'Purple Showers') - Soil and irrigation
Does best in rich, well-draining soil that is kept moist. Plants grown in a rock garden prefer poor to moderately rich, gritty soil with excellent drainage. In an alpine house, the soil should be composed of equal amounts of loam, leaf mold, and grit (or tufa chips).
