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 ...

African violets are easy to grow, nonstop blooms, compact size and new varieties with crazy colors means now is the time to start your collection. Bigstock No, African violets are not just for ...

African violets require more care, but can last for decades. Avoid drafts, be sure the soil is lightly moist, and keep the plant in indirect sunlight.

African violets have a reputation as being difficult to grow. ... There are hundreds of varieties, with new ones being bred every year. Some of the different types are: ...

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.

Presently, more than 10,000 African violet varieties exist. Flowers appear in every version of violet, purple, and pink, and there is even a yellow cultivar that was bred with painstaking persistence.

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… ...

How to Propagate African Violets. African violet varieties grow from both single and multiple crowns. Multiple crown types can be divided, but propagating with leaf cuttings is a more practical ...

But Holtkamp Greenhouses Inc., the largest producer of African violets in the world, is already trying to create new varieties - for Mother's Day 2009.

Holtkamp’s father, Reinhold Holtkamp Sr., now 72, first had to make African violets commercially viable. Before 1965, African violets couldn’t be shipped because the flowers dropped off so easily.

Question: I received an African violet for my birthday a few weeks ago. I have it sitting in my kitchen window, but I’m not sure how to take care of it. Can you provide some advice, please?