#native violet

[bumblebeeappletree]

Bush foods are on the menu of fancy restaurants everywhere, but Clarence has some tips for growing your own. And if you’re short of space don’t worry – many edible native plants are perfectly suited to growing in containers.

Clarence is combining a few plants in a large 50cm pot – you need something at least 40cm across to give plants room to grow. The plastic pot will then sit inside a more ornamental holding pot, which will also help insulate the inner pot from the direct sun.

The pot is filled with a premium potting mix that will provide good drainage and nutrition. For some natives, especially those in the Proteaceae family, a low-phosporous mix is essential, but for the plants Clarence has chosen, any premium mix is suitable.

As a central feature plant, Clarence has chosen a favourite – Cinnamon myrtle, which is related to lemon myrtle. Both can be used to make a herbal tea; simply cover 1-2 leaves with hot water and allow to steep. The leaves can also be used in baking and even curries. Both trees also originate from rainforests along Australia’s east coast, so need protection from hot afternoon sun. As a small tree, is will get quite large in the pot but can be kept small by regular pruning; trim back to just above a leaf node to encourage more leaf growth.

Next in the pot is Midyim berry (Austromyrtus dulcis). It has pretty white star-shaped flowers, but its main attraction is the fruit that develop from these. Clarence describes their taste as a mix between cinnamon, blueberry and sherbet. There are a few Austromyrtus species to choose from in the garden. Narrow-leaf Myrtle is slightly taller, and a hybrid of the two is called ‘Copper Tops’, named for its reddish new growth.

Clarence adds an Apple Berry to the pot, too. These will grow in a range of climate, and produce tubular fruit that are ripe to eat when yellow. Clarence describes the flavour as between kiwifruit and stewed apple (with a seed inside)!

Their scrambling habit means they can trail over the edge of the pot.

The final plant for the pot is a native violet, whose flowers can be used to decorate cakes and salads.

Filmed on Dharawal Country in Heathcote, NSW

Featured plants:

Cinnamon myrtle (Backhousia myrtifolia )

Lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora)

Midyim berry (Austromyrtus dulcis)

Narrow-leaf Myrtle (Austromyrtus tenuifolia)

Midyim berry (Austromyrtus dulcis x tenuifolia ‘Copper Tops’)

Apple berry (Billardiera scandens)

Native violet (Viola banksii)

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[julianplum]

🪻🌱🐝 💜 🌿 ✨ // violets & violet miner bees // part of my natives + pollinators series // gouache on paper

tiny violet miner bees (Andrena violae) are a specific pollinator: they pollinate wood & dog violets in the Northeast, and show a strong preference for blue violets. letting your grassy yard rewild itself and grow violets every spring not only lets you make violet syrup, it also gives violet miner bees their most important food source and increases local pollinator diversity.

[geopsych]

3 years ago today I visited some cliffs along the Lehigh River. Water seeped and dripped from them constantly and the were covered with a wonderful mix of mosses, lichens, liverworts and other native plants.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Just a tiny bit bitter that someone (jokingly) reblogged that post about plants and bugs to call me a spotted lantern fly when the post was originally because I was trying to look up wood violets and getting a bunch of pages about how to kill these lovely native wildflowers because they. . . look "bad" in the desolate wastelands that Americans call "yards."

I am fully in favor of culling invasive species (in a way that is quick and minimizes their suffering), but can we not just think about the implications with regards to how much of our world is seen as a pest to remove and destroy. Please. For me.

[noseysilverfox]

Violet tricolor or wild Pansy (lat. Víola trícolor).

Violet is the floral emblem of the Swedish province of Ongermanland. 🇸🇪It is considered one of the oldest cultivated plants that have ever been grown on earth, native to the Mediterranean during the Roman Empire.

A favorite ingredient of pastry chefs and cooks. The leaves resemble lettuce leaves, and the flowers may have a sweet mint flavor and floral aroma.✨️

Фиалка трёхцветная или Анютины глазки (лат. Víola trícolor).

Фиалка – цветочная эмблема шведской провинции Онгерманланд.🇸🇪 Считается одним из самых старых культурных растений, которые когда-либо выращивали на земле, родом из Средиземноморья времен Римской империи.

Любимица кондитеров и поваров. Листья напоминают салат-латук, а цветки могут иметь сладковато-мятный вкус и цветочный аромат.✨️

[rebeccathenaturalist]

It's been. That's about all I can say. In the two weeks since I turned in the completed manuscript of The Everyday Naturalist to the publisher, I have been to Portland both weekends for teaching and tours, written a bunch of shorter-form pieces, AND compiled all the numbers and paperwork for my taxes, which is a very complicated process given that I'm self-employed and doing a bunch of different things for a living. And my to-do list is still super full for the next couple of weeks as I try to get everything done that needs to be done before I head out on the road for Missouri again.

But, like this stream violet (Viola glabella), I am emerging from under all of the detritus into a new spring day. I'm incredibly fortunate that the bulk of what I am busy with is made of all things that I love doing, and that there's enough of it to keep me afloat. And I have some great plans as the year continues to unfold, so keep your spring peepers on this space!

[oliviarosaline]

Violet Wood Sorrel

Oxalis violacea

This beautiful oxalis violacea with showy, soft violet blooms is a perennial species native to the eastern and central United States.

May 12th, 2023

Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

[los-plantalones]

viola sororia - common wood violets

[lissa-edem]

Colin, out of the blue, right in the middle of the dinner: Pen, marry me, please!

Bridgertons in the dinning room:

*silenced in stupor*

Pen, swallowing the air: wait... why... I mean... what the fuck... sorry, mrs. Bridgerton... Colin, we're friends... and you don't want me... I don't understand.

Benedict: dear family, we should open a bottle of champagne, he finally got it.

Violette: you can call me Violette, Penelope, darling. Colin, make a normal proposal. Eloise, don't make a plan to kill your brother.

[solidandsound]

I remember you closing the shutters and laying down by my side and the light that was just slipping through it was painting your body in stripes

[jmc-creative]

Common Violet

Sometimes you must bend down and look closely to find the little gems

Viola sororia Native to Eastern North America Stemless Spreads by stolons and forms small colonies Flowers white with purple veining only occasionally Downy, wide-heart-shaped leaves Stops blooming in hot summer weather Great ground cover

[alcnfr]

Common Blue Violets (Viola sororia) scattered around the backyard this morning... with a Sweet Gum fruit (Liquidambar styraciflua).

[muirneach]

i spent all day hanging out downtown and the only pictures i have are from walking home in the river!

[faguscarolinensis]

Viola canadensis / Tall White Violet at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[fierykitten2]

I headcanon that Quax (my Quaquaval) and Char (my Armarouge) love to jokingly bring up the time Rose (their trainer) took 5 attempts just to beat Eri (because I really wanted to match how I did it in Violet). Often they’ll tell newcomers to the team that Rose is friendly and gets on with everyone to some extent except that one time he was completely unprepared and seemingly also underlevelled (I think most of them fainted several times per battle so their friendship will have gone down significantly. Quax and Char are the only ones from my party during that time that continue to be in my party now)

Sadly I don’t think there was any major event in the Violet main game where Spriggie and Char would have a similar memory (I mean maybe the training for rematching Ryme but Char wasn’t in my party then. Also I only took two attempts with Ryme in Violet as opposed to taking five attempts with Eri in Scarlet)

[bethanythebogwitch]

Native wildflowers collection pt 2

Continued from part 1

Wild white indigo. These grow seed pods and then break off and tumbleweed around to spread their seeds.

Blazing star. There are several species of this and I think this one is prairie blazing star

Culver's root

Daisy fleabane. This was burned and the ashes were used as a flea remedy.

Joe Pye weed

Elderberry. You can chop up the branches of this, put them in the ground, and as long as there's enough water, they will grow into new bushes.

Wild petunia (left), wild geranium (right), and wild hyacinth (bottom). I like them more than the ornamental cultivars

Showy tick trefoil. These seeds are easy to collect. Walk through the prairie for a while and you'll have a few hundred stuck to your clothes.

Tall bellflower

Heal-all

New England aster or aromatic aster. I don't know how to tell them apart. Usually purple, but sometimes you find a bright pink one.

Evening primrose

Wild onion

American bush clover

Rose mallow (left) and halberd-leafed rose mallow (left). The latter gets smaller flowers and different shaped leaves.

Tall boneflower, which is a name I'm totally using for an undead plant in D&D

Great blue lobelia

Smartweed. These are absolutely tiny.

Spring beauty, a cute little spring ephemeral

Bloodroot. These are cool, they have giant rhizomes and bright red sap.

Wild violet. These are usually purple, but sometimes you find a yellow one

Trout lily.

Virginia bluebell

Trillium. You don't get as many of these around here as we'd like because the deer go absolutely wild for them

Woodland phlox

Wild hawthorn

Continued in part 3