Viola Blue Marina

Common Name: Blue Marina Viola

Description:
Viola 'Blue Marina' is a compact, free-flowering perennial or annual known for its striking deep blue blooms with a soft yellow and white centre. Flowering prolifically from autumn through spring, it thrives in Melbourne’s climate, preferring well-drained soil and full sun to part shade. With its low-growing, mounding habit, 'Blue Marina' is perfect for garden borders, pots, hanging baskets, and mass planting. This hardy and resilient variety is frost-tolerant, making it an excellent choice for adding cool-season colour to the garden. Regular deadheading encourages prolonged flowering, and its delicate blooms are highly attractive to bees and butterflies.

Form:

• Ground Cover
• Shrub - Clumping / Grass-like / Mounding

Mature Size:

• Height: 10–20 cm
• Width: 20–30 cm

Aspect:

• Full Sun
• Part Shade

Flowering:

• Flowers in Autumn
• Flowers in Winter
• Flowers in Spring

Flower Colour:

• Deep Blue with Yellow and White Centre

Key Attributes:

• Suitable for Pots
• Perennial (often grown as an annual)
• Frost Tolerant
• Low Maintenance
• Bee Attracting

Toxicity:

• Non-toxic to humans and pets

Companion Plants:

• Pansies
• Alyssum
• Primula
• Dianthus
• Lobelia