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Plant: ColorMax Beacon Rose Viola
Viola · Viola cornuta
Size: 18 Count Tray
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
ColorMax Beacon Rose has rose petals with white beacon petals toward the top. ColorMax violas are larger than standard violas, more like small pansies, and very free flowering, with excellent cold and heat tolerance, for pots, packs, baskets, beds and mixed containers. Horned violets grow best in humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. They bloom through cool weather and slow down in summer heat; deadheading encourages new buds.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 0.7 ft tall and 1 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-11
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
ColorMax Beacon Rose has rose petals with white beacon petals toward the top. ColorMax violas are larger than standard violas, more like small pansies, and very free flowering, with excellent cold and heat tolerance, for pots, packs, baskets, beds and mixed containers. Horned violets grow best in humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. They bloom through cool weather and slow down in summer heat; deadheading encourages new buds.
- Flowers
- Five petals, with four upright or fanned and one facing downward, in two-tone white, lavender and blue on the species. Fragrant and showy.
- Foliage
- Rounded, toothed, evergreen leaves.
- Fruit
- A three-valved capsule. The seeds have an oily feel and are dispersed by ants.
- Bark & stems
- Stems are creeping and ascending, up to 12 inches long.
- Pruning
- Cut back to encourage another bloom when temperatures drop. Deadheading can trigger new buds.
- Native range
- Pyrenees (France and Spain)
