With their diminutive size, colorful blooms, and attractive foliage, African violets are popular houseplants. Originating in East Africa, they now come in a variety of leaf and flower colors ...

The African violet is often called America’s favorite house plant because it’s relatively inexpensive and many varieties can bloom year-round. Those with violet thumbs recently entered their ...

African violets have been a popular houseplant for generations. ... Flowers can be purple, pink, red, white and everything in between, plus blooms can be single, double or semi-double.

African violets are available in many colors including pink, blue, purple, white and bio color blooms. There are single and double flowering varieties with smooth, ruffled, or frilled petals.

Lighting: African violets like bright, indirect light. Provide eight to 12 hours of sunlight or artificial light per day. Make sure sunlight isn't too bright, or it will burn leaves.

African violets remind us that sometimes, the classics really do stand the test of time. However, Selvey notes they aren't just your grandma's African violet anymore.

In 1942, the first pink flowered plant was marketed, soon to be followed with a white blossomed African violet. Today commercial varieties have nearly endless combinations of leaf shapes, flower ...

My mother was an avid gardener but I don’t remember her ever growing a houseplant. Everything went into the ground. As a child, I was never even aware that houseplants existed until one day m… ...

African violets like the same temperatures we do, 65 to 75 degrees. They stop growing below 55 — prolonged cold snaps or even a light frost can kill them. They also can’t take high heat for ...

DOLGEVILLE — In the 1950s, Lyndon Lyon created the first-ever double-pink African violet, setting the stage for his greenhouse in Dolgeville… Read more » ...