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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: shelagh on April 23, 2020, 01:59:45 PM

Title: Tiny and pretty.
Post by: shelagh on April 23, 2020, 01:59:45 PM

I picked this, naughty I know but it was poking out from underneath a hedge and my knees don't like getting down that low.

I know there is a Viola or Pansy called Freckles but this is more like the wild Violets in size less than an inch across. Growing as a succession of singles under the hedge.

Does anyone know it.

Title: Re: Tiny and pretty.
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 23, 2020, 03:14:10 PM

Possibly Viola sororia ‘Freckles’?
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Tiny and pretty.
Post by: fermi de Sousa on April 23, 2020, 03:15:24 PM

https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/plants-for-shade-conditions/viola-sororia-freckles.htm (https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/plants-for-shade-conditions/viola-sororia-freckles.htm)
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Tiny and pretty.
Post by: WSGR on April 23, 2020, 08:13:07 PM

Wish you had another photo! Looks translucent or I need to go to the optician!

Title: Re: Tiny and pretty.
Post by: brianw on April 23, 2020, 09:51:38 PM

It would seem from nursery photos online there is more than one version of Freckles, particularly as regards the degree of freckles and the background colour. I bought an Adonis plant last year and it now seems to be predominantly a version of Freckles and has many seed pods.

Title: Re: Tiny and pretty.
Post by: shelagh on April 24, 2020, 01:45:45 PM

Thanks to all who replied. Thanks for the link Fermi, I think you are right I just had it in my mind that Freckles was a bigger plant altogether. Perhaps the hedge was stunting it's growth.