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Plant: Sorbet® XP Red Viola
Viola · Viola cornuta
Size: 18 Count Tray
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Sorbet XP Red has an excellent red color with staying power and blooms on the late side of the series. Sorbet XP violas cover the soil at flowering with more blooms per plant and less stretch, stay compact in heat and cold, and overwinter well, on mounded plants 6 to 8 inches tall and wide. 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
Sorbet XP Red has an excellent red color with staying power and blooms on the late side of the series. Sorbet XP violas cover the soil at flowering with more blooms per plant and less stretch, stay compact in heat and cold, and overwinter well, on mounded plants 6 to 8 inches tall and wide. 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
- Flowers have five petals.
- Foliage
- Rounded, toothed, evergreen leaves.
- Fruit
- The fruit is a three-valved capsule.
- Pruning
- Cut the plants back to create the possibility of another bloom when temperatures decline.
- Native range
- Pyrenees (France and Spain)
