I'm not sure, but i have 4 different clems coming up this year that I gave up for dead YEARS ago. I don't know what to make of it after this polar vortex winter. I can't really even remember who they are. There will be lots of surprises for me when they begin to flower.

Hello Jill Ann, Hopefully the experienced ID experts will check in. But in the mean time...I would guess Viola conspersa. Second guess, some other stemmed blue. Although it doesn't look like the appalachiensis or walteri that I've grown, and doesn't have enough spur to make me think rostrata. So, adunca, maybe?? And as a long-shot third guess... I got to see a presumed striata/rostrata hybrid this past weekend, growing amongst a bunch of rostrata. Your violet bears some resemblance to that plant. So, possibly could be some type of striata hybrid derivative. By the way, I still have an odorata hybrid potted up for you, although I think the bloom may be over for this spring. Good luck with the ID, Tom

Hi Esther, No offset on mine yet. I am hoping it will make one this summer. There is a small plant in the pot too, but it is a completely separate plant. This one will keep making more leaves for years and eventually trail . It would be good in a hanging basket. It needs to be out of the way though, I don't want to bump into it!

The Forbid label had all sorts of warnings about human toxicity through inhalation, direct skin contact, etc. Birds are extremely sensitive to airborne particles and chemical fumes, even those that don't bother humans (fumes from teflon-coated nonstick pans, for example, can kill birds in a matter of minutes), and in general, it's pretty safe to assume that anything in the air that's harmful to humans will be more harmful to them. I didn't think it was worth the risk, even in a different room. Plus I'd have to worry about getting the overspray on my floor/wall/etc. What I did do is made about a half gallon of Forbid and, with my gloved fingers holding the soil/plant in the pot, dunked each of my plants (I have ~30, so not as many as a lot of people) upside down and swished them around for a few seconds. Saran wrap probably would have helped, but unfortunately I didn't think of it or see your comment in time, but just using my fingers worked relatively well. I did have one plant fall out of the pot and entirely into the miticide, but I fished it out quickly, and after letting it dry out overnight, I repotted it with apparently no harm done. Garbage bags covered with a layer of paper towels worked well to set the plants on while they all dried overnight in my bathroom, with the vent on to get rid of fumes. The miticide got a little dirty by the last few plants, due to some loose soil falling in, but I don't think it impacted its function any. I do need to figure out how to dispose of the leftover, though. However, that would have been a problem even if I had chosen to spray it, since I wasn't sure how much I needed, and it's not stable once mixed up, so I couldn't have saved it to reuse. I currently have it sealed in a cleaned milk jug while I figure out how to responsibly dispose of it. Thank you all for your help and advice while I figured this out! Hopefully this will be the last of the nasty mites!