Viola odorata 'Double Rose de Bruant'
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Viola odorata 'Double Rose de Bruant'• Click here to visit our Main Plant List page for current availability of this plant
• common name: violet
• flowering season: early spring with a second bloom in autumn
• height: 3 to 6 inches
• Light requirements: partial shade or morning sunlight
• Soil requirements: average garden soil that is well drained
• Water requirments: average water requirements; grows best in soil that doesn't thoroughly dry out in summer
• Growth habit: a low growing plant that spreads by runners
• How to propagate: severing the runner of a younger plant and replanting it
• Leaf type: heart shaped, small to medium sized leaves
• Ways to use it: to naturalize on the shady side of a house or as a groundcover in a shady garden
• Special characteristics: double violets of lavender-pink are especially difficult to find
John Whittlesey of Canyon Creek Nursery thoughtfully shared this plant a few years back. To quote from page 58 in the book, Violets, the History & Cultivation of Scented Violets, by Roy E. Coombs, "A double rose violet has also been grown for centuries. Whether the one still in cultivation is the original is not known. A possibly improved form, 'Double Rose de Bruant', appeared in about 1889. The form . . . has beautiful lavender-rose buds and flowers on long stems quite suitable for cutting." That book groups this variety in with the hardy double violets of chapter three instead of grouping it with the tender Parma violets of chapter 5. However, we are uncertain how much hardier it might be than a Parma and so caution you not to risk it unprotected where winters are colder than about +20°F. Sweetly fragrant. Limited quantity - limit of one per order, please.