This beautiful flower is brightly colored and shiny a favorite in gardens and on balconies. It is an evergreen herbaceous plant with flowers that are organized around a long stalk with five petals of color that gives it its name. There are also beautiful white varieties.
Its cultivation is relatively simple and is very useful to cover certain parts of the garden where little sunlight falls. Besides being great for decorating homes on the outside and inside, has other interesting utilities, including medicinal, chemical and even culinary.
Cultivation, propagation and soil
Its bloom is from November to March, keeping the flowers for two or three weeks. It is planted in September and multiply by division of mature plant. The best part of the garden to plant it where the sun does not directly, preferring the shade. It needs regular watering, at least two or three times a week, letting the field get to stay dry.
No excessive demands on the ground, although it is better for the soil is cool, compact, calcareous. In wild conditions, violets grow in meadows and damp places, in the early spring. The flowers can be collected and allowed to dry to interior decoration.
Its use
Although they can be used to decorate pots on balconies and patios in the garden may be small flower carpets covering the floors of a very elegant way. Its aroma is used to flavor certain liquors and confectionery, besides being essential for perfumes and cosmetics.
It has expectorant properties, laxative and antispasmodic. The flowers are used to cure colds with infusions and syrups. The leaves are antirheumatic, and improve bronchitis, cough and eruptive fevers. The following characteristics are attributed expectorants.
To make an infusion to add no more than three grams of dried violet flowers in a cup of boiling water. Let it settle, filtered and ready to take. Surely more than a cold calm.
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