Sweet Violet For Sale - Flowering Groundcover
Sweet Violet is the perfect carpet plant, with hundreds of deep purple flowers adorning the groundcover. It's pleasing to the eye with its purple flowers and dark green heart-shaped leaves. As harbingers of spring, these plants quickly emerge from the earth and bloom in the early spring months.
This plant adds a lovely, charming touch to your cottage garden, rock garden, or meadow garden, or even as an accent for your yard. When planted through grass the flowers appear like small purple dots studded throughout the landscape. Perfect in the shady border. For a modern take on this classic beauty, add it to raised areas of your garden that are at eye level or into a container for a truly pleasing display.
Sweet Violets are herbaceous perennials with vivid purple flowers.
Plant Details - Sweet Violet Plants
Family: Violaceae
Light Requirement: Full to Partial Shade
Water Needs: Moist
Height: 4 – 6 in.
Spread: 4 – 6 in.
Growth Rate: Fast
Bloom Time: Spring
Flower Color: Purple
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees and butterflies
Landscape Uses and Maintenance – Sweet Violet Plants
This plant will naturalize in the garden given the correct conditions. They grow very low to the ground and create an enticingly “sweet” groundcover you will enjoy year after year.
Plant it in an area with plenty of moist and well-draining soil. It thrives in full to partial shade. Pair it with Virginia bluebells, ferns, Bloodroot, and Dutchman’s Breeches for a beautiful and perennial spring display. Keep it moist and water when conditions are dry, especially in drought.
They can spread via underground rhizomes and by seed. Hop on by? Though uncommon, rabbits will eat violets without their preferred food sources, so watch out for these cute but hungry critters in your garden. However, this plant is deer resistant.
This plant will attract bees, moths, and butterflies to your garden. It attracts Fritillaries in particular.
Noteworthy Characteristics of Sweet Violet Plants
Sweet Violet flowers are sweetly scented, and they were once often pressed for perfume extraction or placed in sachets worn at the hip.They are a beloved plant and are the state flower for a few states, including New Jersey.
