I'd say leave it alone, and watch for seedlings around it. I too, asked
anyone on the newsgroup years ago to SEND me their violets, as I had NONE
over here in Fairy Holler..........LOL well, I've tucked them in three
places. and am finding them in EVERY pot, and in places I have no idea how
they got there! but I love them, and would prefer them rather than the Vinca
major that I fear I'll be plagued with forever...................and all
this rain we're receiving has encouraged the assault on the vinca overtake
to huge proportions! I'd dig it up, though, and pot it and watch for
seedlings like their parent. A variegated violet sounds
cool.......................
madgardener in Fairy Holler in Eastern Tennessee who still finds violets in
the most unusual places.........(like the old office chair that mosses have
set up a colony and now a violet is growing in the middle of the moss on the
seat part of the chair! LOL)
"weretable and the undead chairs" wrote in message
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I have been fighting wild violets in my front yard since about six
years ago when I intentionally planted some that I dug up from a field
that was about to be bulldozed for a development. I leave some alone
in the yard well away from the beds, but I have been trying to
eliminate them from some of my planting beds with smaller perennials
and annuals since they tend to just take over. This year I found one
under a shrub that has very lovely green and white variegation.
Flower was the same as the others.

Since I have no idea what the seed from this violet will do, I was
wondering what to do to propogate it. Just dig it and divide it? Or
leave it alone and let it make little bulblets or whatever they are
called under the soil? I know it is hard to kill violets most of the
time but since this one is pretty I figure I am far more likely to
murder it. =)