It’s time to take another walk with Ice Swimmer as he tours us around Harakka.
Chapter 6 – Viola on the Rocks
These pictures were taken on the rocks of Harakka, in various places and various times, both on Saturday and on Sunday. The wild/feral violas could be found all over the rocks wherever there was a large and dry enough crack or other place in which there was some soil.
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Our journey on the rocks of Harakka will continue in the next post of this series.
I love how tenacious these beauties are. Usually a sign of spring, it’s lovely to see them in autumn, as well!
I love violas and they will grow anywhere.
Also known as heartsease which they certainly do.
I’m not sure if these are wild Viola tricolor or if they are escapees from somebody’s flower bed. They were smaller than cultivated violas.
Lovely!
Viola tricolor and its garden varieties are known here as “perfect-love” (amor-perfeito).
In German the name is “Stiefmütterchen” “little step mother” and I don’t know why.
Viola tricolor is in Finnish keto-orvokki. Keto is a dry meadow and orvokki the word used for pansies and violas and also a female given name.