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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

F2 of Viola striata X walteri (syn. Viola X cooperrideri)

These are some of the re-select second generation seedlings from my cross of Viola striata X Viola walteri. I'm trying to cull out the less appealing ones so that only these better ones will sow seed for future generations.
 
This is a fairly large flowered blue-purple that tends to be more prostrate growing from the start.
 
 
 This one has a more upright compact habit early in the Spring (they all make neat mats by mid-summer). It was especially heavy flowering last year.

Two white flowered ones with purple undersides of the foliage.
 
And a completely white, with green foliage - this one rebloomed fairly early last Fall.

Wouldn't it be great to get pretty foliage and flowers and rebloom all combined into one plant!
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  1. fe_r556May 1, 2015 at 1:20 PM

    Imagine if! The rebloom is especially interesting. How about the pretty foliage, with reblooming fragrant rostrata-like flowers? :P

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  2. TomMay 2, 2015 at 5:34 AM

    I haven't been checking these for fragrance but Viola striata itself surprised me many years ago. To my knowledge, it's not reported to be fragrant. But I gathered up a little bundle of flowers one evening and they definitely collectively gave a nice sweet clover-blossom sort of scent. So your vision isn't out of the question.

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