Double Flowering Plum vs Early Blue Violet - TreeTime.ca

Double Flowering Plum vs Early Blue Violet

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Viola adunca

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Double Flowering Plum
Early Blue Violet

With the Double Flowering Plum in your garden, you'll be the envy of your block. Not only is it a stunning visual, but it is one of the earliest spring bloomers. With its gorgeous double pink blooms, this Plum is irresistible to birds, butterflies, and neighbours alike.

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Early Blue Violet is a low-growing native perennial wildflower valued for its striking early-spring blooms. The flowers range in color from vibrant blue to deep violet, often marked with pale highlights and fine white hairs. They provide an important early nectar source for pollinators and serve as a host plant for several fritillary butterfly species.

It spreads by both seed and rhizomes, gradually forming small colonies. Its dark green, heart-shaped leaves add ornamental appeal, and the plant shows some resistance to deer browsing. Early Blue Violet is well-suited to naturalization projects and pollinator-friendly gardens, and has also been used in coastal butterfly habitat restoration in the Pacific Northwest.

Double Flowering Plum Quick Facts

Early Blue Violet Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Height: 0.1 m (0.3 ft)
Spread: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 0.2 m (0.5 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: fast
Life span: short
Life span: short
Growth form: low growing, clump-forming
Spreading: seeds - medium, rhizomes - medium
Suckering: high
Maintenance: medium


Toxicity: rhizomes, fruit, seed poisonous to humans
Flowers: pink, round
Flowers: purple to blue-violet
Bloom time: mid spring to early summer
Fruit: none
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NS, NB, YT, NT
Other Names: flowering almond, flowering plum
Other Names: dog violet, hookedspur violet, sand violet, western blue violet