Comment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Better Homes & Gardens magazine here has this to say: “Pansies are viola hybrids, officially known as Viola x wittrockiana, with a complex ancestry that includes several species.” So we’re both...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by coastalcrone
How wonderful to have those come up and flourish without any effort! They are just beautiful.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Really high on the cheerfulness factor, a real blessing!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Rebekah McNulty
V. triolor is the provincial flower, where I come from in Sweden. The colouring is slightly different from Johnny’s, with less yellow and more blue. They have two names in Swedish; ‘Night and Day’ or...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Me, too! No work is GOOD. Just appreciating. The names are really something, aren’t they! Why Night and Day? And really really why Stepmother’s viola!!!!! I suspect the answer is, Why not? :-)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Rebekah McNulty
Styvmorsviol, I don’t know. Natt och Dag refers to the dark blue as night and the yellow; day..sun.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Well, that’s logical enough when you translate it. But the stepmother, now that’s trickier. When you go to Sweden in August, that’ll be your assignment, to find out about the stepmoms and the little...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Rebekah McNulty
Yes! :) I will find out. We have an indoor house-plant called ‘Mother-in-Law’s tongue’ also, but that one I think is something similar here.. they look really sharp-tongued.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Madhu
The Johnny Jump Up’s are beautiful. I only know of the cultivated violets, we had large beds full of their smiling faces in our plantation gardens.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
We also have a Mother-in-law’s tongue or something like that, probably the same as yours. REALLY UGLY, they are. It’s closely related to — are you ready for this?— the Snake Plant. Both of them are...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Touch2Touch
Since I began this post I discovered the close resemblance between pansies and sweet violets, all in the Viola family. I love big-faced hybrid pansies of various colors, and I love purple violets as...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: violet by Touch2Touch
I’m glad. Thank you for coming by and reading.
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by Nature on the Edge
Ma N certainly has an eye for fabulous ‘couture’ :)
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: violet by Touch2Touch
Too bad I didn’t know about all these violet marvels when I was in Spain! Once upon a time one used to be able to buy candied violets!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: violet by Touch2Touch
So glad they spoke so directly to you, Mary!
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: Mlle. POPPY by 2e0mca
A nice sequence of flower posts you’ve been building here Judith :-) Poppies have vanished from many of our fields as farmers seek to achieve maximum yields :-( However they still adorn our hedgerows...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: HERE’S JOHNNY! by 2e0mca
Pansies and Violets are wonderfully beautiful flowers. We have wild violets hiding away in our garden – a legacy from a day out in the 1950’s when my mother brought some home (an illegal act now but...
View ArticleComment on TODAY’S PORTRAIT: Mlle. POPPY by Touch2Touch
You wouldn’t by any chance happen to have an archive photo of poppies along the railway line????? That would be swell! My memories are mostly of poppies in Burgundy. New England is not real hospitable...
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