The johnny jump ups are making their annual appearance in our driveway. It always amazes me to see them growing in the gravel.
They are some of my favorites. So tiny and delicate, mine are still blooming, but will be gone as soon as the heat arrives. .
Those are diffrent from my Johnny jump ups.Those are lovely growing in gravel.I planted mine in a hanging basket last year and they never came up til now.
Growing up in Pa. we called them "Violets" and they are in the wild flower catagory and therefore grow anywhere, you don't have to plant them but will find them in unusual places..here in Fla. we find "Purslane" and "Portchulaca's" growing wild in our lawns on empty lot's etc. you can buy them if you wish they are a ground cover plant and grow like weeds..
Such charming little flowers. I tried and tried to get some to naturalize when we first moved here, they'd do fine for the first year, but just disappeared and never did establish. Ah, but the sweet violets are taking over . . .
I love violets/violas, and dismay myself with how many I buy up every spring. Just planted a bunch, I'll try to get a pic when the weather clears. I plant them among the wild prairie violets that make their way into my garden.
I planted pansies and violas last fall, and they never died during the winter, even under four feet of snow. When warmer weather came, they started blooming profusely. Except that somebody stepped on one of them and smashed it, so now I have a hole in my pansy bed. That also means that someone was trespassing in my back yard, which is kind of scary. I found one of my plant labels snapped, too. Now it's occurred to me to wonder if one of the neighborhood cats sat on my pansy bed, or maybe rolled around in it. That might have smashed the pansies.
