Viola cornuta Penny Orange plug plant

The Viola cornuta 'F1 Penny Orange' is a horned violet with an early and particularly abundant flowering. It produces flowers of a pure and vibrant orange, around a delicately painted yellow heart enhanced with black "moustaches". The plants are compact and branching, excellent in borders, containers, and hanging baskets. This biennial appreciates humus-rich soils and dappled sunlight.

Belonging to the violet family, the horned violet is native to the Pyrenees and is a low perennial plant that has given rise to numerous hybrids and cultivars. Often crossed with Viola tricolor (wild pansy), their most famous descendants are garden pansies. The 'F1 Penny Orange' variety is a compact and spreading herbaceous plant, reaching a height of 15 cm (5.9 in) when in flower, with persistent dark green, ovate, and serrated leaves, forming a tuft with a spreading habit. This plant is covered with flowers from spring to autumn. Its compound flowers with 5 petals resemble those of small pansies, but are arranged differently. The petals are of a pure, intense and velvety orange, surrounding a small yellow heart finely marked with black "moustaches". The plant spreads quite rapidly thanks to its rhizomes and also self-seeds readily, not always faithfully.

Horned violets are intended for low beds and borders, as well as pots and balconies, where they associate well with other spring and summer flowering plants. (Forget-me-nots, Dwarf daffodils, Daisies, Primroses, Botanical tulips, summer and autumn asters, etc.) The flowers of horned violets are edible, so do not hesitate to decorate your plates with a few, or even to add some to your salads for a touch of color.

Please note that our young plants in mini-plugs are professional products intended for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant them as soon as possible into pots, or directly into flower beds.