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Viola planting

grown by shiny in Big main bed · Wellington, NZ

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Planted 2026-08-04

Finish expected 2026-12-11

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No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

3 months ago 2026-08-04

Progress

79% day 102 of 129

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Parent Seed

Sown from expired seeds (plant before 2020)

Grown from

Seed Your viola packet
Sown from expired seeds (plant before 2020)

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Latest, Nov 09: 14.6°C / 11.4°C2 °C frost line
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 09: 0.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain
244 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
2.6°C
Soil temperature
11.0°C
Days
98

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Photos

IMG_0417
IMG_0417
by shiny
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by shiny

Observations

  1. Day 102
    Flowering
  2. Day 0
    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this viola planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 44 days ago. The viola planting went in on 4 Aug, 25 days before the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This viola planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Coldest night
2.6 °C
0.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 194 days after this viola planting finishes
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of viola

Viola

Viola

  • 3 plantings
  • An annual, living about 129 days

World neighbours

Other viola plantings at the same latitude.