please.....i DO believe the question SHOULD BE: how do you keep indigenous
violets from propagating??

although, i must say i am grateful to them....if not for them, i'd have lawn
(blecccchhhh!!); now, instead, i have 3 different coloured indigenous
(native) violets and they're pretty and they smell wonderful; but best of
all: grasshopper, japanese beetle, and rose chafer larvae do NOT overwinter
by eating their roots as does happen with grass roots!
(hrm....i wonder if there's a group with that name?)
j/k, j/k....gee, can't you guys take a joke??
--
With Malus toward none, and Cherry-Trees toward all.


From: "I Love Lucy"
Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:34:53 GMT
Subject: How do you propagate wild violets?

I just love these freckled ones I found yesterday growing in my yard. I
will go out and see if I can find them again and mark around them so
they don't get mowed.

What do I do to propagate more or can I do it? Wait for them to make
seeds? I suppose I could google the answer, but wonder if any of you
have done anything like that. I don't want to risk transplanting them
and think there's just one plant of those. At the west, close to
neighbor's, and partly shaded side of the house, there are purple ones,
white ones, and these freckled ones, all just sprang up there naturally.

http://www.white-peacock.com/Violets10.jpg