That’s funny my wife was taking a survey with her friends we have wild varieties naturalized and old school the scents are all different . It’s been about 50 / 50 on likes or not . I like them all some have a stronger scent a lot of flowering brush around here I even like the way poison oak smells lol .
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Dang. Phooey. & all that.
I really hoped they’d work; I sowed some clover seed that didn’t come up this winter or spring & am wondering if my house got too hot last summer & all my non-weed seeds got fried. 
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That looks like mine only mine are 6’+. I bet it’s the same. The bloom pods are out on mine but we are getting 30’ish temps every night this week. I’m hoping they’ll just put it all on hold for a week or so. So far nothing has frozen. The apricot trees are still blooming.
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@Meesh what exactly are you doing to care for your Purple Vilots? I’ve got a large one and I seem to fail with it, despite having it for probably 3+ years.
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Honestly, all of the johnny jump ups have been all volunteers for the last few years now. I only had to plant them once. The only thing I do these days to any of my planters or other ground soil is have a soil test once a year and amend based on that. I really think the violas just love my climate. I have done liquid fish drenches and cal/mag drenches the past few years though. Other than that I keep them well watered and keep cutting off the spent blooms until the last scraggly batch closer to summer and let those go to seed for the next year.
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Maybe that’s why I’m doing wrong lol
I don’t cut off anything. I do feed it organic nutrients, same as my Cannabis lol
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Most flowers like to be pruned. Especially after the first major bloom. Here I can get quite a few blooms in per year on most annuals if I keep cutting them. It kills me to shear them back at times, but it’s usually worth it for the next big bloom. My flowers will get the all the same ferts as the cannabis as well out there. You feed the soil not the plant.
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Excatlty… took me a long while to wrap my head around this. But its sooo much easier now that I have lol 
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@Meesh here are the violets (oven glove for size comparison) I’ll start chopping off the nice flowers. This usually gets semi shaded light during the day.
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Oh I’m sorry I thought you meant the violas. My african violets, I use wicking pots. They love it. They like strong filtered light. I bought a special violet soil that I ordered a mix of peat, vermiculite and perlite and I feed them 1/2 strength violet food every watering. Try and find violet food with no Urea type Nitrogen. Truly though the wicking pots are key. I got cheap ones on amazon for like 6 bucks. The flowers on these you simply pinch off once they dry out.
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@CADMAN it’s not organic but this is the food I use.
If they are blooming then they are getting enough light. Yours looks great actually, maybe a tad overfertilized. Cut back to half dose per watering
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Organic soil lol same as cannabis Nutrients. I just water it when the pot feels light.
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I had them in soil first and they did well, looked like yours, but when I switched them to hydro with the wicking pots they went nuts and look like mine above now. Bigger leaves and much bigger blooms. They like being fairly root bound as well. I divide them when they form new crowns.
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All outdoor soil require’s more nutrients. It takes a maintenance fertilizer then extra on top of that for whatever your growing. So if what they are telling you to put down on your soil is called maintenance fertilizer. So compare pot to tomatoes and add plenty extra…
You need more ferts @meesh
No actually my soil is balanced with the amendments. Those are my ferts. Through an entire growing season. It’s the same concept as water only. Basically you have built the soil first. Everything outdoors aside from my container plants only receive what it needs for the entire year. My soil is a mix of nutrients that break down slowly and also readily available nutes. I do high brix gardening and anything added just randomly will throw off the balance in my soil.
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If you were referring to my cannabis, then you know my plants def don’t lack nutrients. Any container grows I do whether cannabis or ornamental flowers of course get added ferts as the plants deplete the resources inside the limited amount of soil, but def not the ground. My ground soil just gets better and better with each year as there are a lot of rock element’s that break down for years and years.
I do not fly blind and guess what the soil needs on ground plants. My containers however is all a guesstimate by me though
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It say ‘EZ’ so you know it’s for lazy people 
too lazy to write ‘EASY’
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Totally! Honestly though, for a chemical, it’s a great product. It’s hard to find a good one without Urea based Nitrogen. African Violets don’t dig that particular type. They have been happier and more luxurious since I switched to that brand. Oh yeah, my orchids like it too! Way more spikes and blooms this year!
Meant to tell you not to feel bad about the poppies. Ive read many many places now that it takes a lot of poppy seeds to even get 1 to come up. I guess they are pretty finicky believe it or not.
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…got me looking up random shit … train of thought went something like:
easy bake oven, light brite, lazy boy, wildwacky action bike:
I was so impressionable…
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