WINTER FLOWERING VIOLAS

In an earlier post I mentioned that I had taken up the pelargoniums in a narrow border and planted the narcissus Obdam.  It was all really too bare, that little strip of soil, while I waited for the daffodils (narcissus) to make an appearance next spring, so I bought a couple of trays of winter flowering violas.  I've never grown violas in the winter and I am not sure how they will cope with a heavy snowfall, or extremely low temperatures but nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They look a little sad at the moment in the border and for the first couple of days, just while they get over the shock of transplanting, I have covered them over with bubble wrap during the night.  I do hope that they take and give a good display through winter.   Maybe they will, if the slugs don't eat them first.  The Obdam narcissus bulbs are in there too, running close to the upper edge of the border so the violas should not get in their way.