Price range: $13.30 through $18.14
The Sweet Violet Plant brings the scent of traditional violet confectionery into your garden. Victorian London’s flower sellers sold these fragrant blooms in small posies. Today, their edible petals still decorate cakes and desserts, often crystallised in sugar. Grow your own, and this connection between garden, kitchen and everyday indulgence comes alive.
Botanically known as Viola odorata L., this perennial produces delicate flowers above a carpet of heart-shaped green leaves. Its fragrance contains ionones, aromatic compounds that also feature in perfumery and confectionery. Those tiny flowers offer much more than their size suggests.
Allow approximately 15 cm in height and 20 cm in width initially, with runners gradually extending the patch. Plant it beside a shaded path, beneath open shrubs, or in a pot where you can appreciate its perfume.
Choose a protected position with partial shade and moist, well-composted soil. Water regularly during dry weather, particularly in pots, and mulch lightly to help retain moisture. Sweet Violet tolerates frost but struggles with drought and exposed, hot positions.
Flowers generally appear in spring. Here at our nursery, we usually see blooms during late September and October. The species includes deep purple, white and rose-flowered forms; colour depends on the individual plant.
Pick fresh flowers to garnish drinks, scatter over desserts or crystallise for cake decorations. Harvest only correctly identified flowers grown without unsuitable chemical treatments. You can also gather small posies or dry flowers for potpourri.
Add our Lemon Balm Plant nearby in a suitable moist position to create a fragrant picking corner. Together, they offer contrasting scents and useful leaves or flowers within easy reach.
Sweet Violet, English Violet, Common Violet, Florist’s Violet, Garden Violet, Fragrant Violet, Fragrant Garden Violet, Sweet Blue Violet, Wood Violet, Devon Violet, March Violet, Sweet Pansy, Blue Viola and Violet.
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