NeverGreen - it is a corpse. The violet should have really good drainage and lots of air in the soil. You cannot grow it in soup bowl full of muck. Lets say - all violets you can buy - are propagated from the same mother plants - so they are all clones. The fact that this specific plant is lost - doesn't mean the end of the world - there is plenty of genetically identical plants around. So you can find the same variety or very close to what you had variety and grow it. Growing plants is not a rocket science, you can learn. And your Mother would be proud of you if you will grow a couple of AVs really well to remember her and to remember this first plant. Read FAQs, look at AVSA.org website and get yourself a book in a library. There is know-how to get - and most important - you treat the plant as a living organism trying to create conditions it requires. Like - if you keep fish- you will get them a nice fish tank with filter, air, light, will feed them etc. If you have a cat - you won't try to to stuff him in a fish tank, he has his own preferences and will use his claws to get out of this fish tank. Plant cannot climb out of the unappropriate environment, you need to know beforehand what it will prefer -and then watch to see if it is happy or not - so you can adjust the conditions until it is happy and growing and gratefully blooming for you 10 months out of the year. So in a memory of the one that is lost - learn how to grow another one well. Good Luck with Greening Your Fingers irina

I would talk to your doctor about this just to make sure you are getting all the vitamins you need.

thanks g23 for the link to the book... I'll have to check at the mall (Barnes and Noble) to see if they have that book... About 30 some years ago someone in our town thought it would be a good idea to wipe out several of the old buildings downtown and build a mall...The mall failed and the built a new one on the east end of town. Now they are building a new kind of mall...not connected but a bunch of stores in the same area. Several have left the east end mall for the new place. Anyway it just ruined our old town. One of the buildings was a Hotel that Abe Lincoln stayed in when he passed through...several times. patti

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