Product Overview
Enjoy delightful blue-purple flowers with white whiskers year after year. A vigorous self-sower.
This sought-after, heirloom viola native to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Tuscany, brings cheerful, bright, blue-purple flowers to your garden every season! Long stems give the flower center-stage high above the foliage, and the 1" bloom size make Corsican Violet a fairly large viola. Reseeds readily and is tolerant of heat and drought, unlike other violas. A 2003 Plant Select Winner.
Variety Info
1 ½"–2" blue-purple blooms with a small yellow center, surrounded by white "whiskers."Sowing Inside
8 to 10 weeks before your average last frost date for early spring planting, and midsummer for fall planting in both mild and cold climates.
Sowing Outside
RECOMMENDED. Cold Climates: 4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date, or in midsummer for fall and the following spring bloom. Mild Climates: Late summer for cool–season bloom.