VALIANT VIOLAS

You would think that the little winter flowering violas that were planted in late autumn 2012 could never have withstood the weight of recent heavy snow that lasted days, nor the subzero temperatures that have been freezing everything in the garden on and off for weeks, but they have.  I really don't know how anything as delicate as flower petals can survive when the same conditions would seriously damage unprotected human skin.  All the below photographs were taken today, and the last of the snow disappeared yesterday.