Violets in the apartment and in the garden

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The use of violets for landscaping a room or garden is the most common way to use these plants. However, few people know that violets in the apartment and on the site are grown not only to please the eye. Violet tea and syrup have a pleasant taste and beneficial qualities. Violets have also been used in medicine as medicinal plants. When growing violets in a room or outdoors, remember that these are not only beautiful, but also useful plants.

The use of violets in landscaping

The variety of species and varieties of violets creates great opportunities for their use in landscaping. The diversity of their biological requirements, timing of flowering and appearance allows the use of violets in all kinds of landscape design elements for a long period – from early spring to late autumn.

It is difficult to find an element of floral gardening, wherever different types of violets are used. The use of violets is widely used in flower beds and in flower clocks, containers and hanging baskets. Perennials are often planted on alpine slides, in shady corners of the garden, in a mixborder, near a pond and even on a lawn.

The most widespread in the culture of Wittrock’s violet, or pansies. Large, bright flowers, long flowering, an exceptionally diverse range of colors have made her a favorite of both landscape designers and amateur gardeners. And if these violets in the garden half a century ago were used only for spring gardening, and in the summer, after the end of abundant flowering, they were replaced by annuals, then modern hybrids make it possible to admire these flowers from early spring to late autumn, and in a fairly warm climate – even in winter.

The use of violets in the flower garden

In modular and carpet flower beds, violets are frequent guests, most often monochromatic varieties with white, blue, yellow, red flowers are planted, which are spectacular on the bright green of the lawn. And variegated, multi-color varieties and mixtures look better in small flower beds, in mixborders and containers. Particularly suitable for this purpose are the varieties of the group:

“Joker” (“Joker”)

“Majestic” (“Majestic”)

And Goldsmith Giant blends.

Pansies can be cultivated both in monoculture and in combination with other plants:

Snow-white tulips, for example, look spectacular surrounded by dark purple varieties of viols of the Crystal Bowl Series F1 (Crystal Bowl Series F1) .

And the old, yellow with a brown spot variety “Firnengold” (“Firnengold”) goes well with blue muscari, hyacinths and forget-me-nots.

The bright orange variety Padparadja looks best against the greenery of low grasses.

And dark purple and especially coal-black varieties, such as “King of the Blacks” (“King of the Blacks” ), it is better to shade cultures with a contrasting color of flowers: white lobularia, lobelia, gypsophila or silver cineraria.

Pansies are great for growing in pots and containers.

It is not surprising, therefore, that on the streets of cities, along roads and buildings, and in many garden plots, you can find all kinds of vases, containers, baskets decorated with these flowers. Often Vittrock’s violet is planted in compositions with other plants.

Particularly interesting are such compositions in balcony and window boxes, in hanging baskets, where large bright flowers of pansies are complemented by delicate flowers of lobelia, verbena, exacum and effectively set off by leaves of ivy, chlorophytum, greenfinch, coleus and other plants.

Violets in the garden and room

Recently, varieties and hybrids of horned violets have come into fashion more and more. Graceful flowers and an abundance of flowering make this species very promising for mixborders, rockeries, as well as for containers and hanging baskets.

The horned violet, like the Wittrock violet, has varieties with different flower colors, for example, one of the best groups of this species – “Sorbet” (“Sorbet”) – consists of 10 varieties with different flower colors.

This diversity allows the use of varieties of this species in compositions with different color schemes.

Recently, ampelous varieties of tricolor violet with long, drooping shoots, strewn with numerous small flowers, have appeared on sale. These violets in the room are planted in hanging baskets or on special flower stands.

Abroad, ivy-shaped violet has become widespread in annual and greenhouse culture. It is planted in containers as an independent plant, or with taller standard plants. Here it plays the role of a ground cover plant, covering the bare ground with a carpet.

Using perennial violets

Perennial violets according to the method of use can be divided into several groups, depending on their biological characteristics. Light-loving and drought-resistant species, originating mostly from mountainous regions of various continents, are best suited for rock gardens, rockeries and foreground low mixborders. These types include Altai violets, graceful, yellow, hooded, Labrador, incised, purple, dissected, rocky, Aetolian.

In more humid, shady places, under a sparse canopy of trees or near large shrubs, it is best to plant violets two-flowered, hairy, fragrant, forest, Reichenbach, Rivinus, Selkirk, amazing. There they can form quite extensive clumps, acting as ground cover plants, or coexist with other shade-tolerant plants in shady mixborders. It is only necessary to take into account that some of them are quite aggressive and can be very weedy, crowding out other, more undersized species. Wide, beautiful curtains give Langsdorf violets, Manchurian, fragrant, Patren. They are often planted in large areas and in parks as ground cover plants, on edges and lawns.

Another group of violets – marsh violet , two-flowered, peach-leaved, swamp – is highly demanding on soil moisture. Under natural conditions, these species grow in swampy, swampy places, therefore, in the garden they should be planted in damp places – on the low banks of ponds, near streams, in artificial swamps.

Violet fragrant. This species is distinguished not only by abundant flowering and relatively large, very fragrant flowers, but also by high plasticity to various growing conditions, which allows it to be cultivated in a variety of conditions: in the light and in the shade, on dry and relatively moist soil. For a long time, this species has also been used for growing in pots on windowsills and balconies, for forcing and for cutting: it was its flowers, collected in charming bouquets, that were sold in the cities of ancient and medieval Europe from time immemorial.

In the countries of East Asia, the analogue of the fragrant violet is the Manchurian violet, which also has many excellent varieties with different flower colors. In addition, there are many endemic violets with bright, variegated leaf colors in this region. Species and varieties of Asian violets are used in Japan and neighboring countries for cultivation, both in open ground and in pot culture.

The use of violets in folk medicine

In folk medicine, violets have long been considered medicinal plants. The use of violets in folk medicine is common in sore throats as an expectorant, emollient for whooping cough and bronchitis, and also for blood purification, since the herb of this species contains saponins, bitterness, glycoside, salicylic acid methyl ester and odoratin, which lowers blood pressure. Homeopaths prescribe it for pain in the ears, rheumatic joint diseases, asthma, whooping cough and to cleanse the skin.

Violet blood purifying tea

Violet tea has blood-purifying properties. To prepare a blood-purifying tea from violet, take dandelion roots with grass – 15 g, tricolor violet – 10 g, buckthorn bark – 10 g, elder flowers – 5 g, fennel fruits – 5 g, horsetail grass – 5 g. Pour a teaspoon of the mixture with 250 g of hot water, insist 15 minutes in a warm place and drink 1 cup 2-3 times a day for several weeks. In case of skin diseases, the affected areas are washed with tea.

Application of tricolor violet

Violet tricolor has even more valuable properties. It contains saponins, mucus, flavonoids, vitamin C, salicylic acid, tannins, polysaccharides, essential oil, coumarins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and some other beneficial compounds.

The use of tricolor violet in folk medicine is common for various skin diseases, especially for eczema in young children. Her infusions are good for catarrh of the respiratory tract, accompanied by high fever and painful dry cough, as well as rheumatism, gout, urolithiasis and psoriasis.

Violet tricolor is also considered a diuretic, laxative and diaphoretic, and in large doses – emetic. In the Far East, Langsdorf’s violet has long been used for medicinal purposes. A decoction of its dried roots was used to treat shingles, diarrhea, and insomnia. Fresh leaves were applied to sore spots for pain relief, and tumors were treated with the juice of fresh leaves.

Fragrant violet syrup

1 full cup of fragrant violet grass is poured with 250 ml of hot water, insisted for a day, filtered. The liquid is heated to a boil, add 1 full cup of violet flowers to it, insist again for 1 day and filter. The resulting liquid is mixed in equal proportions with honey. Syrup of fragrant violets is given to children 1 teaspoon for cough.

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