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#34
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: north Texas
Posts: 858
The violets are lovely - they remind me of my grandmother as she too raised them - Next to pansies they are my favorite flower and if they like where they are, they will thrive. I have used baskets of violets as centerpieces for a dinner - I also share my sewing space with my bedroom.
#36
Your flowers are lovely. It is nice to have that much light both for sewing and your flowers. I have at least 8 violets that I have kept alive in selfwatering pots for at least 20 years. They reside in a drysink in my kitchen. My Dad was a florist and told me the secret to having violets bloom and thrive is to keep them pot bound. My husband likes to tease me by threatening to repot them for me. When they look straggly I just pull them out of their dirt chop off the longest roots and replace them in their pots. They bloom like crazy.
#37
Thanks for sharing....nice to know others do not have what looks like a quilt shop for a stash. I share my sewing room with my cat Bailey...........spare bedroom that Bailey thinks belongs to him. Love your violets.
#38
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Clifton, Texas
Posts: 48
I have three violets but they are in my kitchen window. They are the only flower I can raise as long as I water them once a week and don't move them. My kitchen window faces the east and they love it there. Violets are my favorite and I collect violet things. Love them!!!!
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