Senk’s Azalea Trail (R.Follett/D.Senk)

Senk’s Azalea Trail (R.Follett/D.Senk)

Miniature bushy trailer. Semi-double and double fuchsia flowers in the shape of wasps. A unique plant for exotic enthusiasts.

Variegated dark green with white and pink, pointed, elongated foliage with red undersides. The leaves are elongated, dark, and glossy. Variegation is sparse, only along the leaf edges, not on all leaves. The rosette is large, fluffy, with leaves protruding in all directions. It looks like a furry mound dotted with flowers. However, in trailers, classification is not based on rosette size but on leaf blade size.

This violet is unusual with its long leaves, but it grows like a typical bushy trailer. Semi-double trailing flowers, flowers of a dull wine-lilac color with a light underside, and narrow petals. The flower never fully opens. The flowers are short-lived, not long-lasting, and the blooming is not very showy.

A fast-growing trailer, it forms a good bush within a year. It is best to plant one or two plants, more will interfere with each other. It is advisable to initially grow them in eight-pot clusters. If planted directly in a large pot, large, long leaves grow up to 7 cm in length.

It sucker and bushes very well. It independently forms a lush multi-headed bush on one stem and with one root system. It is necessary to remove extra suckers, as it becomes overly dense and stops blooming. It also needs constant thinning out; it can grow into a dense curtain but hardly blooms. As soon as you thin it out more, flower stalks appear immediately.