It is not a trailer, rather it is grown as a standard rosette. If there is more than one crown, you can try to determine the primary, main crown and remove the others. These are known as suckers, and generally will distort the shape of your violet from a rosette if allowed to continue to grow. If you can remove them intact, then you can pot them up as you would a leaf and make some new plants from them once they root. From Reed's Greenhouse: Irish Halo - Semidouble, White pansy, green edges. Standard.

I have absolutely no trouble telling Private Dancer from Optimara Modesty. I grow them both (or did until Modesty went so pink - am trying to get a nice plant back). Private Dancer (8548) 11/09/1996 (S. Sorano) Semidouble-double dark blue pansy/light raspberry ruffled edge. Variegated dark green, white, cream and pink, plain. Large Optimara Modesty (8328) 12/14/1995 (Holtkamp) Single dark blue frilled. Variegated green and cream, variable pink; heart-shaped, hairy, wavy, serrated/red back. Standard Optimara Modesty is single blue. Private Dancer is more purple with the raspberry edge and is semidouble to double. O. Modesty has serrated leaves, Private Dancer doesn't and its leaves aren't heart-shaped. The ruffled edge on Private Dancer is more ruffly (I'm sure there's a better way of saying that! Plus it's raspberry.). Diana

I can contribute some German perspective. The standard in Germany is to take your kitchen with you when you move, so most of their kitchen designs have a modular quality to them. Then there's that pervasively sleek Bauhaus influence that feels more historically "natural" in Germany, and less superimposed, than elsewhere. The Germans have a very strong tradition of functional/ergonomic kitchen design, going back to the socially-aware 1920's and efforts to improve worker housing. Read all about the famous Frankfurt Kitchen here and here. (Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was Austria's answer to Lillian Gilbreth.) But then there's also the traditional German aesthetic of cuckoo clocks, carved wood, breakfast nooks and enormous tiled ovens. It's a class issue, as these things often are -- so you see far less of the cuckoo clocks and more of the sleek Bulthaupt in the kitchen porn mags. Germany has smaller habitat spaces than the US in general. Appliances are smaller than the US norm and the standard refrigerator is an under-counter model about the size of an American dishwasher. (This makes the perennial GW question of where to place the honkin' huge fridge irrelevant for most Germans.) Perusing the latest kitchen design mags for Germany, Austria, Switzerland (all one market), I do notice a few things of interest. --> They are not as in love with upper cabinets as Americans. And when they do have them, they tend to be the lift-open type rather than the side-hinged ones we're familiar with here. --> Germans are not afraid of color, and their combinations are not always what we see here. Check out the violet purple cabs with pumpkin accents: Or purple and black: Pistachio and gray: --> But when they do white, they do WHITE: --> Germans, like most Europeans, don't drink tap water. They haul bottled water and beverages home by the case every week, requiring kitchens to provide space for the cases: --> Tiered electric food steamers are the new appliance non plus ultra. Here from Miele: --> Small spaces lead to more innovation. It's like IKEA meets the '20's bungalow kitchen. Because they seldom use wood for cabinetry, they can do some interesting things with doors and corners: --> They're also inordinately fond of large walls of cabinets -- they prioritize storage over prep space:

Yup - some are duds, some are the victims of genetic drift when after so many leaf of the leaf of the leaf propagation they cloned themselves out of the original splendor to a very mediocre plant. Some just do not do that well in my house. If you want to retry - get a leaf from a different source. But we want to keep only the ones that work the best for us. To select by the wow factor. You say wow - it stays - you do not - pass it on. It will probably do well at somebody's else house. Or yur AV friend will love it for something that doesn't excite you. Not everybody likes pinks for example.