Pansies, Wittrock's viola or just a viola - flowers whose cultivation pleases a person with both simplicity and beauty. Everyone has seen and variegated their coloration. Everyone knows. To grow this wonderful flower in your garden, vase or flowerbed is quite simple. And if you want to diversify your flower garden, add a touch of lightness, color to it, then the viola will help you with this. Planting and caring for sprouts do not require special skills, everything is elementary simple.
Features to Consider
For a happy life, this plant needs a little. Viola flower does not like direct sunlight. If you plant it in an open, illuminated space, it will open the petals as much as possible and show its beauty, but it will quickly lose its decorative appearance. It is recommended to plant pansies in a fertile and sufficiently moist soil. It is best to start planting at the beginning of spring, so that the seedlings have already grown stronger in a few months, and it can be transferred to the garden. Flowers will better tolerate the July heat if you surround them with some other plants. There is a second option: the viola grows well under shrubs, because there will be the shadow necessary for it, and the petals will retain brightness.
Breeding
These flowers propagate by seed. The seeds of the pansies are hidden in a box, but it is almost impossible to collect them. When the box ripens, it shoots its contents in different directions. This is how interesting the viola propagates. Planting and care is much simpler, but if you still want to collect the seeds, experts suggest putting gauze bags on the boxes so that the seeds do not scatter when they get enough sleep.
There is a second way to get a new plant. If your flowers grow under the bushes, then after their seeds are showered, you can see tiny sprouts of new pansies. Very carefully dig these
sprouted seeds and transplant them to a permanent place, such as a flower bed. Then it turns out that on the flower bed you grow only seedlings, and when it loses its decorativeness, you will remove these plants. By this time, you will already have the seeds from which a new viola will grow.
Landing and care
Pansies bloom in the second year after sowing, so it’s very convenient when some of the flowers propagate “self-sowing”. But no matter where and how they bloom, these biennial plants require regular watering and top dressing. It is best to use complex mineral fertilizer for this, which already contains nitrogen, potassium, and trace elements. For faster seedling growth, you can use ammonium nitrate or superphosphate fertilizer. Watch the bush during flowering, remove flowers that have already bloomed in time: they will only spoil the appearance of the flowerbed and lead to premature wilting of other flowers.
Use in landscape design
Landscape designers also like to use such a beautiful flower as a viola for their work. Planting and caring for her, as you already understood, are really simple, but her beauty, variegated petals of various shades, an interesting shape will ennoble any flowerbed or rock garden.