Since buying this house nearly 20 years ago, I've fought an annual battle to remove wood violets from both my lawn and my garden beds. The broadleaf herbicides in common weed and feed products does not touch them in the lawn, and every effort to dig them out of the garden has been, at best a temporary solution. Other ground covers will drown them out of the flower beds, but only if it is something that is so strong and aggressive that it pretty much creates the same problem all over again for the other plants in the garden. In the lawn, I spend 20 minutes before and after work nearly every day removing the violets and their rhizomes. That's a lot of time. Does anyone have an alternative "wholesale" "systemic" approach to eliminating these from law, garden or both?
I like violets. I have pleasant memories of my daughter picking the flowers as a little girl. My most pesky invader is lawn grass.
lol, i promote the spread of violets in my beds...great for a no-care groundcover!! i don't mind them, or clover, in the lawn, either.
Sorry I would give my right leg to have such an invasion. I have some violets out now [early winter] and am really enjoying them. When I had too many in another garden there were few problems weeding them out. Is this a native violet to the area? We have a native violet here that can get a bit ferral but it too is easy to weed out. Liz Liz
