Yesterday When I Was Mowing I Saw Lots of Wild Violets That Had Popped Up In My Lawn…
Big patches of them. I picked one and it looked like a miniature pansy. Had never seen wild violets in my yard ever before. When I mowed the area it put off a fragrance of violets. I want to plant them in my flower beds now. The lawn mower even smelled like violets. I would go and sit down next to it and rest a bit before emptying the bag.
@4meAndyou I was born on a farm and don’t remember alfalfa looking like that. I remember tiny yellow flowers on the stem when it bloomed. Some of it was coming up in my flower bed for a few years every year.
@cherokeepatti 🌹 I'd cry over such a birthday cake 🥺 sounds so good! In Greece we make rose petals marmalade and eat it on top of thick sour yoghurt...🤤
@elafina My uncle was touched by it. He kept pointing the roses saying how pretty they were. All we ever had for roses on cakes was those sugar roses that taste terrible.That was back in the 60’s and I think it was the first time he ever saw a cake decorated with real flowers.
These are also known as Johnny Jump Ups, or Hearts Ease. Their formal name is Viola tricolor. It's a short lived perennial. It will come back year after year...aren't you the lucky one!!!
@4meAndyou If my little black-and-white cat was still living she would be out there in the back yard sniffing those violets. I’d get flowers to plant when we lived at the apartment, lined my patio with concrete blocks and planted them in the holes. The first day after planted when I’d come home she’d go to patio door and beg to get outside. I’d let her out and watch her go down the line and sniff every bloom. And she did it with other flowers too. I grew a big amaryllis one winter and held her up to it and she put her face into the flower and inhaled it. It was a huge flower. Never saw any pet love flowers like she did.
@shuhak I don’t know where they invaded from except I have 3 neighbors that let their yards go. One was a rental and the family moved out and the landlords wouldn’t mow the back yard all summer long.
@Lostpoet I know. I pushed myself to get the yard mowed, hadn’t done it myself since the end of last June. I feel better today and the yard looks a lot better. I have a hook thing to hang two bird houses on and will do that later. And the boy set up my smokeless fire pit in the back yard so we will be using that and maybe my rocket stove. I like to use small branches that I trim from trees around here to do that. And want to go over the long flower bed in the front yard and add fresh soil and plant wildflowers this summer. I am a lazy gardener. All they need is watering if it doesn’t rain every week.
