Viola Sorbet Pink Wing

Common Name:
Viola 'Sorbet Pink Wing'

Description:
Viola 'Sorbet Pink Wing' is a charming and free-flowering viola renowned for its delicate bi-colour blooms featuring soft pink upper petals and crisp white lower petals accented by a small yellow eye. Part of the highly regarded Sorbet series, this compact variety offers exceptional garden performance, producing masses of flowers over an extended period from autumn through spring and often into early summer in cooler conditions. Its neat, mounding habit and attractive green foliage make it ideal for garden borders, containers, window boxes, hanging baskets, and mass plantings. Well suited to Melbourne's climate, 'Sorbet Pink Wing' thrives in full sun to part shade and prefers fertile, well-drained soil with consistent moisture. Its elegant pastel colouring and prolific flowering habit provide a soft, romantic touch to seasonal garden displays.

Form:
• Shrub - Clumping / Grass-like / Mounding

Mature Size:
• Height: 15–20 cm
• Width: 20–25 cm

Aspect:
• Full Sun
• Part Shade

Flowering:
• Flowers in Autumn
• Flowers in Winter
• Flowers in Spring

Flower Colour:
• Soft pink
• White
• Yellow centre

Key Attributes:
• Bee Attracting
• Edible Flowers
• Herbaceous
• Perennial
• Suitable for Pots
• Compact mounding habit
• Excellent for borders and mass planting
• Long flowering season
• Suitable for hanging baskets
• Tolerates light frost

Toxicity:
Violas are generally considered non-toxic to humans, dogs, cats, and horses. The flowers are edible and are commonly used as decorative garnishes for salads, desserts, and beverages.

Companion Plants:
• Alyssum
• Bellis perennis (English Daisy)
• Calendula
• Cyclamen
• Dianthus
• Helleborus
• Heuchera
• Lobelia
• Pansy
• Primula
• Snapdragon (Antirrhinum)
• Stock (Matthiola)
• Sweet Alyssum
• Tulips and other spring-flowering bulbs