I've always loved violets since I was a small child.

They are lovely treasures to discover in the woods

or in the landscape. I've been reading Adventures

in My Garden by Louise Beebe Wilder (1923).

She has this to say about growing violets. . .

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It is interesting to note that many of the first wildflowers to appear in Spring are Yellow....such as the Buttercups and Dog Tooth Violets mentioned in earlier posts, and the currently blooming wild yellow Violets. I think God knew how much we would need that warm, sunny color this time of year, to cheer our winter weary souls!

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Posted by Connie Reblogged by Old Roses to violets on 2008-04-02, 06:03:33

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So many beautiful things in life ask something of us as observers.
Attention. Patience. A willingness to ‘give it up’.
Yesterday I noticed the first of many violet blooms to come in the ‘sea-of-Leptinella’ bed near my back door. I was standing upright at the time, and those three perfect little violet flowers appeared from my 7 to 10 foot distance as radiant, violet-colored dots vibrating within a bed of muted earth-tones. Beautiful, yes, but not very telling or very intimate. . . .

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~ Downy Yellow Violet

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, violets on 2007-05-17, 06:45:32

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A white violet growing next to my vegetable garden.

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~ Sweet violets

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Posted by joey Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, violets on 2007-05-05, 00:52:14

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Violets are a really prolific weed in my yard. I hate to pull them up, so I leave many to grow as they please. They make a good ground cover and have beautiful blossoms. Just this week they have started to bloom.

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Violets!!!

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This morning, while I was watering herbs and seedlings in my windowsill garden, I noticed the light hitting the violets on the countertop. Against a shadowy background, the colors seemed to glow. Light passing through the cobalt bottles on the sill added even more color. The top shot is the original, and the bottom is the same, but put through the cartoon filter in the GIMP program. Especially on dark shots, the cartoon filter gives a photograph the look of a woodblock print. I like to use them paper cards and iCards.

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Posted by Sandy Reblogged by Old Roses to violets, whimsy on 2007-03-23, 23:45:19

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Today it's officially the first day of Spring in the Netherlands but the thermometer tells me otherwise. It's cold ( 6 degrees Celsius) and a bit windy, not at all what we would normally associate with a genuine spring day.

We gardeners are all looking forward to Spring, to work outside and enjoy our gardens, to warm our hearts and souls with the colours, the smells, the sounds, the taste, the touch and feel of our gardens. Not so today, at least not here. So to warm those of you up who need it, I have the following weird and wonderful recipe which was inspired by the fact that so many of my fellow garden bloggers worldwide had bought this lovely flower in vast quantities . . .

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Posted by Yolanda Elizabet Reblogged by Old Roses to recipes, violets on 2007-03-22, 17:32:49

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Montolieu, France, has more bookstores than schools, more bookstores than restaurants—maybe more bookstores per capita than any city in the world. The French government nursed this old town in the Aude region north of Carcassonne back to vitality by helping book dealers move here and rehabilitate the beautiful old (and empty) buildings around town. Now the “ville des livres” is home to 15 book shops—a secular shrine for a certain humanist pilgrims.

Originally posted by Julie

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I tend to become obsessive about learning and researching plants that are new to me, and although I have experimented with growing a few scented violets in the cold greenhouse, I can't say that I have become obsessed about, until now. An article in the latest issue of the Journal HORTUS inspired me over the weekend, to examine growing, once again, the common sweet violet,Viola odorata and the Parma Violet, flowers that once we're the third most popular cut flower in the world, surpassed only by the rose and the carnation. . .

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Posted by Matt Reblogged by Old Roses to violets on 2006-05-18, 17:07:28

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Thought I'd toss out a pretty picture before getting to the main topic. There were several plants in bloom (or close) on Friday before the fresh shipment of Arctic Air. I haven't been out to look closely at them since then, but there were: crocus (2 kinds), winter aconite, violets, snowdrops (no picture - photographer error), and this was just getting started. I could have uncovered it so you

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