Extreme closeup of two little purple Violas. Around a tiny white/yellow centre there’s deep purple, fanning out to lighter shades on their front three petals, before becoming dark purple again at those petals’ edges. Each has 2 solid deep purple petals at the back, almost velvety looking. These little flowers are surrounded with various leaves from other plants in our small front garden. In fact, the straight “stripe” of matte light green all down the right side of this photo is actually the edge of a tall, firm tulip leaf (their sturdy leaves always come up before the blooms appear). Violas and Pansies may be small flowers, but both provide much needed pollen and nectar for overwintering bees (as well as nibbles for 🐌 & slugs, which we do not discourage, as they are vital living creatures to the garden’s ecosystem). Please Garden For Wildlife, however you can.🙏~💞
Closeup of two #Violas in our #garden They look similar to Pansies, but are smaller #flowers Both kinds are still #blooming having 1st been planted months ago in what then was bare earth. Now-as our previous post shows-the patch is full of #Spring #blossoms #Garden4Wildlife #photography -amb