Viola cornuta Butterfly Orange and Purple

The Viola cornuta 'F1 Butterfly Orange and Purple' is a beautiful new variety, offering an abundance of flowers with intensely contrasting colours, bright orange and velvety purple, adorned with fine and short black moustaches. The plants are floriferous, vigorous and ramified and remain compact over time. These easy-to-grow biennials allow for charming borders and opulent pots. Horned violets are cultivated in humus-rich soil, in partial shade or dappled sunlight.

Belonging to the violet family, the horned violet, which grows wild in the Pyrenees, is a low perennial plant that has given rise to numerous hybrids. Often crossed with Viola tricolour (wild pansy), their most famous offspring are horticultural pansies. The 'Butterfly Orange and Purple' variety, from which it originates, is a bushy and creeping herbaceous plant that reaches a height of 10 to 15 cm (3.9 to 5.9 in) when in flower, with dark green, persistent, ovate and serrated leaves, forming a spreading tuft. It is covered with flowers from spring to autumn. Its composite flowers with 5 petals resemble those of small pansies, but their petals are arranged differently. The two upper petals are large, erect, of an intense velvety purple, while the three others are inclined downwards, of a pure and vivid orange hue. The heart of the flower, a deep orange, is adorned with discreet black 'moustaches'. The plant spreads quite rapidly thanks to its rhizomes and also self-seeds very easily in the garden, not always faithfully.

Horned violets are intended for low flower beds, borders, as well as pots and balconies, where they will be associated with other plants with spring and summer flowering. (Forget-me-nots, Dwarf Narcissus, Daisies, Primroses, Botanical Tulips, summer and autumn asters, etc). The flowers of horned violets are edible, so don't hesitate to decorate your plates with one or two flowers, or even sprinkle some on your salads to add a touch of colour.

Note: Please be aware that our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners. Upon receipt, transplant them as soon as possible, in pots, planters or directly in flower beds.