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I was horribly annoyed

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

I was horribly annoyed

"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.

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Jeff

I was horribly annoyed

"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
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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.

IMO they are a beautiful plant and they are welcome wherever they grow here.
As I said/ atm, they look fantastic.
You wouldn't mind if they confined themselves to wild wooded areas, why is
that?
Tina

I was horribly annoyed

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
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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.

IMO they are a beautiful plant and they are welcome wherever they grow
here.
As I said/ atm, they look fantastic.
You wouldn't mind if they confined themselves to wild wooded areas, why is
that?
Tina

Because they wouldn't be in my garden.

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Jeff

I was horribly annoyed

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Christina Websell wrote:
"Jeff Layman" 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.

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.

IMO they are a beautiful plant and they are welcome wherever they grow here.
As I said/ atm, they look fantastic.
You wouldn't mind if they confined themselves to wild wooded areas, why is
that?

I side with Tina. If dandelions weren't as promiscuous as a 1960s
pop star, I would say the same about them.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

I was horribly annoyed

On 26 Apr, 13:38, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
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

I have to agree with you Tina. I absolutely adore wild violets and at
one point when I was first gardening in my olde Faerie Holler, there
were NONE. So after I started writing and visiting other gardeners all
over the country and then the world through the remarkable and magic
of a gardening newsgroup for me back in 1998, I was shameless and
asked for people to send me wild violets they didn't want. I lived at
my first Faerie Holler for 13 years, and thanks to much love from many
gardening neighbors, I got purple, sky blue, white with blue stripes,
white with purple throats and a small clump of for me, rare yellow
wild violets. I planted them all. And I was rewarded with them
settling in and spreading at their own rate. Except the yellow one. It
much more preferred the deeper dry woods that I had below, if I'd
known when I first tucked the two clumps in. Here in west faerie
holler in my new gardening home, I have spotted blue, white and blue
and purple wild violets, and have taken notice of some that are
struggling in a drainage ditch that could use some serious cleaning
up. I'll return with a bucket and my favourite wide trowel and lift
them up and tuck them in underneath the feet of my old willow oak
trees where the living is rough. Hopefully given a few years, they
will cover the almost barren ground and will soothe my starving eyes
for a flower in late winter and early early spring. Side note: I had
wondered what I had planted in a window box that also I knew housed
some tough as nails sedums. I came outside a few weeks ago to find my
eyes were dazzled with the healthiest and most lush blue/violet wild
violets I've seen in awhile. The leaves were enormous, as were the
flowers, and there were so many flowers, you couldn't see the leaves
that more looked like lettuce! I took pictures of course. Once I
determine that the black widow hasn't take residence, I will dig a
proper depth hole and just tip out the whole thing, and next spring
the rewards will be amazing. (I will remove the sedums of course as
they much prefer more intense sunlight).

And I love dandilions too, they draw the bees and they're wonderful
bitter greens after winter's days are shortened. My grandmammy always
had a salad of wilted dandilion greens in late winter. g Right now
I'm seeing floppy clumps of thin leaves like onions with white closed
flower buds that promise me it's Stars of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum), so
I will lift those as well and tuck them into spots to wow me as
well.

madgardener slowly making a new faerie holler with my fairies in West
Tennessee

I was horribly annoyed

"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

I have violets come up in my lawn every year. Glorious little flowers.

I was horribly annoyed

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?

Pam in Bristol

I was horribly annoyed

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.

I was horribly annoyed

"Pam Moore" wrote in message
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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?

Pam in Bristol

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

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Jeff

I was horribly annoyed

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"
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?

Pam in Bristol

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

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Jeff- Hide quoted text -

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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

I was horribly annoyed

"Dave Hill" wrote in message
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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
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OK, let's do a quick poll of the group.
Question: Violets: love them or hate them?

Answer only needs to be
a) love
b) hate

I'll start it off with a) love

Tina

I was horribly annoyed

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message
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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
--------

OK, let's do a quick poll of the group.
Question: Violets: love them or hate them?

Answer only needs to be
a) love
b) hate

I'll start it off with a) love

a) love

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Today, is the tomorrow, you were worrying about, yesterday.
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Tina

I was horribly annoyed

* Christina Websell wrote, On 28/04/2010 18:31:
"Dave wrote in message
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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
--------

OK, let's do a quick poll of the group.
Question: Violets: love them or hate them?

Answer only needs to be
a) love
b) hate

I'll start it off with a) love

Love

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Cheers, Serena

I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack
me at once.