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.

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 ...

I am interested in growing African violets to add some color in my home and would like some tips on how to grow them. — Angelina Talbert, Morton Grove You can easily add color and interest to… ...

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… ...

Flower color ranges from white to pink, purple, blue, violet as well as bicolored cultivars. They can be single, ... African violets do exceptionally well under fluorescent or LED lights.

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