OutsideprideJohnny Jump Up Viola Wild Flower Seeds - 5000 Pcs Easy-to-Grow, Compact & Hardy Perennial Seeds for Planting Outdoors, Ideal for Pollinators, Garden Beds, Containers, & Hanging Baskets

I am extremely happy with these seeds. I prepared the soil and sprinkled the seeds. I gently watered every day to keep the seeds moist, until germination, and these seeds germinated very quickly, within 5-10 days I could see all little seedlings emerging. Thankfully it rained a lot here, so I only needed to water when I saw the soil was dried out. It took several weeks for them to grow tall enough to bloom, (patience is key) but once they bloomed it was an explosion of purple, yellow delicate little blooms. I planted these for ground cover in an area so we don’t have to mow. God’s Creation is so amazing, and beautiful. We simply need to be good stewards of Creation, and He is faithful.

Second Update:These were just fine. Just a lack of patience and understanding on my end.Update:Seems the one-star may have been premature, so I updated to three. Went outside and saw two pretty little blooms. So I may have just not understood how they develop. Will upgrade the rating if I see more blooms.Original:Excellent germination rate, but cannot get them to grow beyond a millimeter tall. They develop their first of leaves then just sit there for weeks. I've tried different growing mediums, inside/outside, direct sow... nothing seems to work.

I planted these in zone 7b near some mint and basil. The mint and basil grew very well. These Johnny Jump Ups did not germinate well at all.I bought these because the wild violets that grow here taste good. I wanted to grow violets as a food crop. The flowers on these plants did not have a good taste. The taste is pretty boring.The main positive feature of these plants is that if you do eat or otherwise pick the flowers, they grow back very quickly. With just a few plants, you can have flowers every day.The flowers are small.

knockout. so beautiful and filled an entire very large container and still going sttong (end October)

I just planted them and don't see them coming through the soil yet. That was probably a couple weeks ago, and still nothing.

I thought some of the other reviewers were being dramatic about seed count. But sure enough, this was not 5,000 seeds as advertised. There were no more than 1,000 seeds. Would not buy these again.

These are the happiest, cutest flowers! I planted them in planters in 2022 and they came up sparsely. In 2023 they came back and looked a lot better. Now in 2024 they are growing beautifully! I can’t believe they returned for three years now - in planters! I live in the northeast United States and we get cold snowy winters. These are both cold and heat tolerant They’re in full sun. They came up in early April and now it’s the end of May and they look amazing. They do spread if you plant them in the ground. Mine even spread into the flowerbeds around the planters. They are so pretty, I don’t mind! You can’t go wrong for the price. Just buy them!!

Maybe I didn't need 5000 seeds, but I enjoyed spreading them around all over the place. I had some last summer in a relatively small planter, and they did well. I don't know how many out of the 5000 were successful, but I was pleased with how many jumped up. They don't require much care at all, in fact I would say that I neglect these guys a lot and they still do fine. Sometimes when it hasn't rained in a while I'll give them some tap water when they get droopy.They're surprisingly hardy, the ones I planted last year in my planter dropped seeds in and around the planter and they began growing in late fall and over the winter. We had some bitter chills down here in NC, and I was impressed by the seemingly-tender little plants' determination to stay alive. Now that it is warming up again, they're blooming. I like how there are so many varieties of patterns on the flowers, some are deep purple with little yellow or white, while others have a lot of bright yellow on them. Sometimes I find an "escapee" out in my yard that has bloomed, but I enjoy seeing them. These might be cool to spread around a larger area to see how they fare.