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.
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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.
