On 27 Apr, 19:35, "Jeff Layman" wrote:
"Pam Moore" wrote in message

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:24:57 +0100, "Jeff Layman"
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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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?

Pam in Bristol

http://www.grovesnurseries.co.uk/cat...rma--6303.aspx

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Looks as if we should call them "Marmite Violets" you either love
them or hate them.
I have some that flower till almost Xmas and are flowering again end
of Feb in a normal year.
David Hill