Hi I too have Pixie Blue on my list - the first one I think of actually. There is just something about it... Pixie Blue - just love it Picasso - so dependable Bogeyman - love the contrasts Optimara Little Moonstone - pretty and easy to grow Aca's Red Ember - all round good plant and I am partial to variegated leaves

I do love the way your O. Montana looks! However, I don't think I'd have guessed it. I'm not familiar with O. Montana at all though. My old O. Dali looked exactly like the first photo on the AVSA photo gallery. This one doesn't look like that at the moment but who knows what will happen? It is a big star and I clearly am at a loss to explain the color. It certainly isn't as purplish as rob333's appears on my monitor. It is some pinkish tone. Right now it's disbudded and quarantined. Wait a minute = are those blossoms stars (5 pollen sacs/anthers) on your plant? I only see 4. Dali is a star. I know that sometimes my first blooms seem to have trouble "getting it together" though. Seurat is listed and shown as a pansy and that looks more like Seurat to me (if it's a pansy). I just looked at MyViolet trying to figure out some other ones. Diana This post was edited by quimoi on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 11:53

I like the swirled petal pattern on Rita and Cora. Looks like a rose. I just got one that is primarily white, more of a cream color. It has a faint lavender or rose color patch on a few petals. So it could be Rita. I got it from a familiar florist. So the plants are in better shape than the usual store O's. Meaning no suckers, single crowns. She gave me another that is not flowering. I think it is also white. She raises violets on her own at home. So we plan to trade our home-grown ones, not just her commercial ones! I am able to sell about ten of my Optimara plants that I can live without (even though they are nice colors), so that makes room for this. I suddenly "discovered" white. They seem to be popular this season. They look so elegant for the summer. Joanne

I don't honestly know. I thought reverting would be a chimera losing its stripes for example.... they can't exactly revert into either of their seed parent plants - the genes are too jumbled for that, but if a variety was created through spontaneous mutation (sporting) then i guess it could revert back to (something that looks like) the plant it originally started out as. I am still questioning, if there is so much sporting, how much of the genetic material, that doesn't affect appearance, actually remains the same, and how genetically identical all the clones out there really are... (that just screams soap box, doesn't it?) now where the line is between birthmarking/sporting/reverting - you're going to have to ask someone else, because i never got a clear answer on it either.... Kairn