Pam Moore wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:24:57 +0100, "Jeff Layman"
wrote:

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
when some chap knocked on my door yesterday to offer to clean up my
block paving to get rid of the violets. Which I might say look
spectacular atm, they are growing in the crevices and look
absolutely beautiful.
Some people have no soul.
Tina


Wasn't me, but it might have been.

Violets are a damn nuisance - they get everywhere and have very
tough roots. If they only kept to wild wooded areas, I wouldn't mind.

Violets are beautiful and can grow anywhere they like in my garden.
Some from my front garden spread into next door's lawn. She had her
lawn removed and paving put down, not becauseof the violets. They
have now established themselves in the communal bit of lawn cut by the
council and are much admired.
Does anyone know if we can get the real scented ones I remember from
my youth (1940s/50s?

/Viola odorata/, "Sweet violet": should be in any seed catalogue, and
GCs and nurseries must offer plants. There's a yellow form as well as
the usual. Rusty probably has several recipes, as both flowers and
leaves are edible. I'm not sure why so few of us grow them: I'd expect
them to do well under the currant bushes etc. Do the flowers perhaps get
damaged by the weather?

--
Mike.