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Title: Primula 2018
Post by: Mark Griffiths on January 11, 2018, 02:28:55 PM
A new year begins and the first Primula allionii out here is Elizabeth Burrow.

Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Arie.v on February 22, 2018, 09:47:34 PM
In some of the previous years post on primulas I have seen lots of allionii's in pots, can someone describe the soil mixes and growing of allionii's in plunge beds? Shallow verses deeper pots.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on February 22, 2018, 10:36:40 PM
When we grew and exhibited  primula allionii plants we grew them in   standard or  half pans - not deep ones.  Kept them plunged in sand in a cold glasshouse, in a lower bench in hot weather.  We grew  just about everything in the same  compost mix  -the same as Ian always describes in the Bulb Log ......  these are  links to help :
Potting compost recipe 26/07
Potting mix, loam-free 24/05

Compost 49/06
mixing (cement mixer) 31/05
mixture 4/05
test, sand based 34/05

here are the actual links to each BulbLog .....

Potted using our standard mix..... Potting compost recipe 2607http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2007/260607/log.html
Potting mix, loam-free 2405   http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2005/140605/log.html (http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2005/140605/log.html)
 
Repotting  4906http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2006/061206/log.html

This is still the mix we use for potted bulbs and plants even now.
 
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Arie.v on February 23, 2018, 03:20:34 AM
Thanks a lot Maggie, sure gave me lots of information.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on February 23, 2018, 08:24:43 PM
Arie, I have a pamphlet issued by The National Auricula and Primula Society, and sold some years ago now, called "Primula Allionii Forms and Hybrids" written by two of, perhaps the best, UK growers of P. allionii, Bob Archdale and David Richards. As far as I know it is out of print now. It is 21cm high x 15cm wide and consists of 36 pages the contents consisting of Cultivation; Compost; Potting; Environment; Propagation; Hybridization;
Exhibiting; Pests and Diseases; List of species and hybrids (somewhat out of date as far as modern cultivars are concerned; Plant Suppliers; Refernces.

I would be happy to run the pamphlet through my scanner and send it to you as a number of emails with attachments in case you do not have a strong broadband set-up. It is not possible to do this by PM so you would need to let me have your email address.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Sellars on February 23, 2018, 09:14:09 PM
Hi Maggie:

Thanks for the info on Primula composts.  I had not thought to use the standard Ian bulb mix for Primulas.
We have no John Innes on this side of the Atlantic so loam-free composts are the most commonly used.  For many years I have used Ian's standard 2 parts sand, 1 part leaf mould and 2 parts grit (2:1:2) but have switched to 2:1:1 based on a more recent 2014 bulb log:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Aug271409137865BULB_LOG_3514.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Aug271409137865BULB_LOG_3514.pdf)

What combination is Ian using today?
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Mark Griffiths on February 23, 2018, 11:03:13 PM
Arie, I've grown P.allionii in pots plunged in sand for about 30 years now - I tend to use pots rather than pans and I always find that they fill the entire pot and the roots then head out into the plunge. I had one greenhouse where they were mostly in the shade and I would water the pots perhaps only a few times in a season - but I would regularly water the plunge. For various reasons they were never repotted and what had happened is that they had rooted into the sand. They remained small but flowered well and I hardly had any losses.

Where I am now there is more sun and so I need to water the pots more. I get alot more losses.

On composts I'm a bit vague - usually a loam based compost with about 40-50% extra sand / grit.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Mark Griffiths on February 24, 2018, 10:07:29 AM
I wanted to add that I find that while I usually keep the plants for several decades I do get the occaisional collapse and sometimes if I've not been able to propagate the clone I lose the entire variety. I think that like many similar alpines, Dionysias, Androsaces etc they don't like the summer heat. I read on this forum that they shut down in hot wheather and if you water they rot. I've tried not watering and that also leads to difficulties.

What I am starting to do is to try some "spares" in frames. They are alot wetter but so far they have got through the winter ok. I still need to get them through an entire season.

I add this because if you are somewhere where you have summers like ours (or hotter) you might find frame culture easier.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on February 24, 2018, 11:42:59 AM
Hi Maggie:

Thanks for the info on Primula composts.  I had not thought to use the standard Ian bulb mix for Primulas.
We have no John Innes on this side of the Atlantic so loam-free composts are the most commonly used.  For many years I have used Ian's standard 2 parts sand, 1 part leaf mould and 2 parts grit (2:1:2) but have switched to 2:1:1 based on a more recent 2014 bulb log:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Aug271409137865BULB_LOG_3514.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2014Aug271409137865BULB_LOG_3514.pdf)

What combination is Ian using today?
Sometimes more leafmould for the "woodsy" loving  plants, David.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Arie.v on February 24, 2018, 05:28:21 PM
Thanks for all the valuable information and I'm looking forward to receiving a copy of that booklet from David Nicholson
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: ruweiss on March 03, 2018, 09:21:26 PM
Some Primulas from the Alpine House:
Primula Ute is a Pr. marginata Hybrid with huge flowers and was raised
by nurseryman Gerd Stopp
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gerdk on March 06, 2018, 12:05:12 PM
Here is Primula megasaefolia - not fully hardy outside. I keep it inside when temperatures are below - 3 ° Celsius.

Gerd
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Mark Griffiths on March 06, 2018, 01:27:00 PM
This is one of Brian Burrow's allionii seedlings not fully out yet I think - at the time it was only under a serial number.

Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on March 06, 2018, 02:03:08 PM
Nice Primulas Rudi Gerd and Mark
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: ruweiss on March 06, 2018, 09:39:19 PM
Thank you David
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gerdk on March 07, 2018, 02:15:22 PM
Thanks from me also!

Gerd
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: ruweiss on March 10, 2018, 09:29:46 PM
More Primulas:
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on March 11, 2018, 02:06:05 PM
Primula allionii and its forms and hybrids are such pretty plants.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on March 16, 2018, 09:15:48 PM
Something a bit different - for me, anyway!
 Julia Corden got a rather super new primula and wanted to know more about it  and asked  Pam Eveleigh of Primula World for advice.
 
[attachimg=1]

I wondered if it might be a member of the  Corutsoides Section, some sort of P. heucherifolia  perhaps.... wrong again!
 
Pam replied to Julia :
This looks like the new hybrid P. filchnerae x P. praenitens (formerly P. sinensis).

The inflated calyx with a flat base is an indication of Section Auganthus which has as member species P. filchnerae, P. hubeiensis, P. praenitens and P. rupestris. Though P. rupestris is very close to P. praenitens, Chinese researchers have studied them and determined them to be distinct.

 The  calyx with its flat base is easily seen in this photo

[attachimg=2]

Pam's website : http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm (http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Paul Cumbleton on March 18, 2018, 10:36:32 AM
Photographed just before the new snow fall today, I recently bought this Primula kialensis from Aberconwy. The AGS Encyclopedia says this plant is easy but very short-lived, so I'll have to see how long it survives. I have planted it in a north-facing tufa bank.

Paul
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Mark Griffiths on March 18, 2018, 11:19:05 AM
A couple of favourites

Primula allionii Rosemary

Primula marginata Napoleon

Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on March 18, 2018, 08:36:19 PM
Hi, Paul,
That's a great looking P. kialensis.  I saw it growing on damp rock faces in Sichuan and then grew it from seed that was mislabeled as P. dryadifolia.  It lasted a couple of seasons, blooming and then fading away the second season.  Hopefully yours will last longer than mine!
...Claire
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on March 22, 2018, 07:46:01 PM
A few Primulas from the greenhouse:-

An unnamed allionii raised by David Philbey under his reference DPP 454-01
Another unnamed allionii this one from Gerd Stopp under his reference 10-08
An unnamed hybrid (I think) under reference Lismore 79-26
P. 'Joan Hughes'
P. 'Lindum Eros'
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on March 26, 2018, 07:01:32 PM
Latest news from Barnhaven Primroses

https://mailchi.mp/barnhaven/g8q43w5gic-1460853?e=35bb98281b
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Steve Garvie on March 30, 2018, 08:57:36 PM
Primula whitei
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/878/27246771738_5749d57c70_o_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: kris on March 30, 2018, 09:32:20 PM
Quote
Primula whitei
Fantastic colour
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on March 31, 2018, 01:10:02 PM
Something a bit different - for me, anyway!
 Julia Corden got a rather super new primula and wanted to know more about it  and asked  Pam Eveleigh of Primula World for advice.
I wondered if it might be a member of the  Corutsoides Section, some sort of P. heucherifolia  perhaps.... wrong again! 
Pam replied to Julia :
This looks like the new hybrid P. filchnerae x P. praenitens (formerly P. sinensis).
The inflated calyx with a flat base is an indication of Section Auganthus which has as member species P. filchnerae, P. hubeiensis, P. praenitens and P. rupestris. Though P. rupestris is very close to P. praenitens, Chinese researchers have studied them and determined them to be distinct.
 The  calyx with its flat base is easily seen in this photo

Seem this is appearing in a few garden centres around the UK - and perhaps Europe.

 It's best treated as half-hardy, though, I think.

Graham Rice writes about it  here : https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/March-2017/primula-ooh-la-la (https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/plants-blogs/plants/March-2017/primula-ooh-la-la)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: ruweiss on April 02, 2018, 10:06:13 PM
Primula allionii Pfaffenteich
Primula allionii Tony
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on April 03, 2018, 01:05:20 PM
Latest news from Barnhaven Primroses

https://mailchi.mp/barnhaven/g8q43w5gic-1460853?e=35bb98281b (https://mailchi.mp/barnhaven/g8q43w5gic-1460853?e=35bb98281b)

And all the extra temptation for auricula lovers now too! https://www.barnhaven.com/field-house-nursery (https://www.barnhaven.com/field-house-nursery)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Philip Walker on April 05, 2018, 11:41:29 PM
P. allionii 'Mrs Dyas'
P. 'Clarence Elliot'
P. 'Lindum Arctic Fire'
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Philip Walker on April 05, 2018, 11:49:01 PM
P. 'Stradbrook Dainty'
P.'Allen Queen'
P.'Joan Hughes'
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Yann on April 07, 2018, 09:30:13 PM
I never have heard of Primula megasaefolia, do you sown it Gerd?
Lots of nice primulas in this post.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gerdk on April 08, 2018, 07:39:38 AM
I never have heard of Primula megasaefolia, do you sown it Gerd?
Lots of nice primulas in this post.

I received a piece of this plant from a friend a long time ago. It does well but only when  kept inside during spells of frosty weather -seeds are built occassionally.

Gerd
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on April 08, 2018, 01:41:54 PM
This unknown primula has established itself under some shrubs here. Similar to Primula vulgaris but bigger and darker. Any guesses?

[attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on April 09, 2018, 08:34:09 PM
I think you'll have to settle for a form of Primula vulgaris Ralph. Do you get P. elatior (Oxlip) in your area, if you do this might have some blood in it? All i all they are promiscuous little things.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Steve Garvie on April 23, 2018, 09:53:08 PM
Primula renifolia -a compact Caucasian Primrose relative.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/864/27760360718_1e61ff501d_b_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Philip Walker on April 24, 2018, 10:48:03 AM
Primula henrici
Primula 'Mauve Mist'
Primula x pubscens seedling
Primula x 'Kusum Krishna'   (edit to correct name)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Steve Garvie on May 01, 2018, 11:06:42 PM
Primula henrici
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/948/26964527987_260ce950f9_o_d.jpg)
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on May 11, 2018, 05:33:29 PM
It's the start of a parade of candelabra primulas.  Primula japonica is always the first (and seeds prolifically).  Primula cockburniana has vanished, but its genes live on in a hybrid.
...Claire
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Sally on May 12, 2018, 05:25:19 AM
Claire, is that P. japonica a named one? Do you grow one of about that color called 'Glowing Embers'?

Sally
In Idaho
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on May 12, 2018, 05:44:52 PM
None of my P. japonica plants are named ones.  They started years ago from various seed exchanges and have mixed themselves quite readily.  I do wish I could get 'Postford's White' back, but so far, seed exchange seeds have let me down.
...Claire
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on May 24, 2018, 07:19:36 PM
Do I assume that Dodecatheon is still in Primula?

I've grown the following from seed but I wonder if the names are correct? If anyone can help please it would be much appreciated.

Dodecatheon pulchellum
[attachimg=1]

flower close up of above
[attachimg=2]

Dodecatheon frigidum
[attachimg=3]

Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Sally on May 26, 2018, 06:33:41 AM
David, your Dodecatheon pulchellum is certainly more robust than the ones growing wild here.  I'm not sure, but ours may be D. pulchellum pulchellum.  The species native to this ranch stays short, doesn't have such large leaves, and usually a maximum of 4 or 5 flowers per stem.  But the rainfall is only an average of 14" per year.

Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on May 27, 2018, 12:07:05 AM
Primula forrestii, grown from 2009-2010 SRGC seed exchange.  Originally, I thought I had a single plant in the pot, but this year, with 3 flowering stems, I discovered that two are pins and one is a thrum.  Hopefully there will be seeds, thanks to hand pollination.
[attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on May 27, 2018, 07:46:20 PM
David, your Dodecatheon pulchellum is certainly more robust than the ones growing wild here.  I'm not sure, but ours may be D. pulchellum pulchellum.  The species native to this ranch stays short, doesn't have such large leaves, and usually a maximum of 4 or 5 flowers per stem.  But the rainfall is only an average of 14" per year.

Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho

Thanks for responding Sally. After further research I'm now thinking that the plant I had labelled as Dodecatheon frigidum is more likely to be D. meadia. The D. pulchellum is quite sturdy and I wonder if the seed was perhaps from the form 'Red Wings'?
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gabriela on May 27, 2018, 08:57:39 PM
Do I assume that Dodecatheon is still in Primula?

I've grown the following from seed but I wonder if the names are correct? If anyone can help please it would be much appreciated.


Latest works on the genera placed Dodecatheon in Primula David, but don't worry it will be quite some time until the names will be changed. I also have no intention to do it, yet.
Waiting for someone to put them back in Dodecatheon  ;D

Cannot really help with the names, only the one you said pulchellum is most probably not. I also have one grown from AGS seedex that needs to be ID - most probably D. meadia as well (came as Primula parryi !!!!).
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Leena on June 18, 2018, 06:44:17 AM
Primula sieboldii from Barnhaven. In the front there is a plant grown from 'Manakoora' seeds, a very nice blue shade I think.
Behind it is a taller plant from 'Dancing Ladies' -seed mix which produces some white and some pinkish plants, all with frilly petals.
P.sieboldii likes to grow in my garden, but I have trouble with many other Primulas which don't like my soil, so I'm very happy to see Primula waltonii in flower for the first time ever for me. I hope it will grow bigger in the future years. It is the third picture.
Ian wrote very wise words in last weeks bulb log about growing plants which will grow well in my conditions. P.sieboldii grows well but P.japonica doesn't (though it grows well in my mother's garden in middle Finland).
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on June 18, 2018, 10:53:42 AM
Interesting  what you say, Leena - Primula sieboldii does not  do well here at all! :'(
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: johnw on June 18, 2018, 02:14:57 PM
Primula sieboldii does well here.  A friend has grown many from seed, I show three he's chosen for further consideration.  The first two are very vigorous.

john
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on June 18, 2018, 04:56:40 PM
Where the primula grow well is very interesting.  In my garden, the generally cool Pacific Northwest, P. japonica, sieboldii, and candelabra crosses are rampant spreaders.  P. florindae flourished at one time but has been shaded out.  I need to find a better place for the seedlings that are left.
...Claire
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: sokol on June 19, 2018, 07:20:06 AM
Any idea about this dark Primula?

[attachimg=1]

And a red Primula florindae

[attachimg=2]
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on June 19, 2018, 11:56:58 AM
Any idea about this dark Primula?


It has a look of a very dark  Primula poissonii about it. Wonder if it  has hybridised?
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on June 19, 2018, 10:32:02 PM
The dark one looks like Primula wilsonii var. anisodora.
...Claire
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gabriela on June 20, 2018, 01:27:28 AM
Very nice Primulas from all.
In my garden as well P. sieboldii 'Late Snow' seems to go rampant (almost) and P. japonica does well in a location where I do extra watering during dry periods.

I like all the forms in P. sieboldii, must try to grow more from seeds.
[attachimg=1]

Just a regular pink, embedded in E. stellulatum.
[attachimg=2]

Primula alpicola var. violacea does well this year and the fragrance is unbelievable.
[attachimg=3]

This one was grown from seeds (as P. pulverulenta), I thought to be a P. japonica but seems a bit different; maybe a hybrid? Striking colour, my camera doesn;t show it well actually.
[attachimg=4]



Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: sokol on June 20, 2018, 08:44:42 AM
The dark one looks like Primula wilsonii var. anisodora.
...Claire

Thanks Claire, this one makes sense. I have sown it in 2016 amongst others but the label has vanished.

I haven't sown Primula poissonii, Meggie but also thanks for the suggestion.

Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2018, 11:35:05 AM
I'm confused -  the dark primula shown here  by Johnny D  does look like Primula wilsonii var. anisodora - http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16459.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16459.0)

[attachimg=1] Johnny D's  flower

but I am less convinced that sokol's "dark primula" with a yellow eye,   from a post earlier  on this page  is that.  :-\ :-\ :-\

[attachimg=2]
sokol's flower
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on June 20, 2018, 05:07:21 PM
If you check Pam Eveleigh's Primula World website, you'll see that P. wilsonii has a yellow eye.  Some of its hybrids may not.
http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm (http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm)

...Claire


Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Maggi Young on June 20, 2018, 06:11:51 PM
If you check Pam Eveleigh's Primula World website, you'll see that P. wilsonii has a yellow eye.  Some of its hybrids may not.
http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm (http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm)

...Claire

Thanks Claire -  that was helpful, since there's a photo from David Rankiin of a plant showing both types of flower on the same stem!

from Primula World Site :
[attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Leena on June 22, 2018, 03:10:42 PM
Very nice primulas everyone  :), and I especially liked Gabriela's pictures growing Epimedium with Primula sieboldii. That gave me good inspiration where to plant my smaller Epimedium seedlings - they both seem to like the same kind of soil.
I'm also trying to grow different colored P.sieboldii, and now have more seedlings from seed ex seeds.

Where the primula grow well is very interesting.  In my garden, the generally cool Pacific Northwest, P. japonica, sieboldii, and candelabra crosses are rampant spreaders.  P. florindae flourished at one time but has been shaded out.  I need to find a better place for the seedlings that are left.

In my garden it is not so much the climate but my soil which somehow doesn't suit many candelabra Primulas, but P.sieboldii grows well and also P.florindae does well and doesn't die like P.japonica does. it is a mystery to me why I can't grow them ( I have gotten many plants from my mother's garden and killed all), in some places in my garden the soil is too much clay and too wet in the winter, and on the other hand in my woodland beds where even many Trilliums do quite well, P.japonica does not. So I've stopped trying to grow them (mostly) and try to grow different other kinds of Primula. Though I would love tall dark red candelabras!
Now I hope that P.alpicola and P.waltonii would do better for me.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: fermi de Sousa on September 29, 2018, 02:27:58 PM
Ours is not the sort of garden where primulas thrive!
However I cannot resist them and these two have persisted through last summer to flower this spring - even if we do have to keep them in pots!
1) Primula kisoana alba from Jon B at last year's plant swap - a single stem last year and 4 this year
2) Gold-lace primula distributed by our friends Matt and Mike who run "Antique Perennials", a wholesale Nursery in Kinglake, which we bought from a local retail nursery
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: bibliofloris on October 15, 2018, 12:45:35 AM
A nice surprise: Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii DJHT 0133 — flowering again in October?
This one’s new to me this year from Windcliff (Dan Hinkley’s current endeavor), so I don’t know if it’s usual or not; he lists it as blooming January through March.

Apparently the slugs are enjoying it too...
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Leena on December 17, 2018, 12:59:05 PM
Some Primulas from last May in my garden.
The first yellow ones are grown from 'Jessica' seeds, but they don't have the same leaves or flowers than the original 'Jessica', however they flower very well for me.
In the second  picture in the foreground there is a nice Spice Shades group plant which I have grown from SRGC seed exchange seeds as well as also 'Fireflies' and Indian Red Group plants, thank you so much whoever donated the seeds.
The last picture is of an old nameless Primula which does well here.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Leena on December 17, 2018, 01:01:01 PM
Barnhaven Polyanthus 'Paris 90' seeds have given white, blue and mixed shades plants, all very nice.
Also 'Daybreak' does well in my garden.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gabriela on December 18, 2018, 12:06:16 AM
A nice surprise: Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii DJHT 0133 — flowering again in October?
This one’s new to me this year from Windcliff (Dan Hinkley’s current endeavor), so I don’t know if it’s usual or not; he lists it as blooming January through March.
Apparently the slugs are enjoying it too...

Unusual colour for a sibthorpii, very nice; forms of vulgaris and especially hybrids have the tendency to reflower if it's a warm fall.

One of my polyantha also tried to do it but then a cold snap stopped its enthusiasm.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Gabriela on December 18, 2018, 12:08:37 AM
Some Primulas from last May in my garden.
The first yellow ones are grown from 'Jessica' seeds, but they don't have the same leaves or flowers than the original 'Jessica', however they flower very well for me.
In the second  picture in the foreground there is a nice Spice Shades group plant which I have grown from SRGC seed exchange seeds as well as also 'Fireflies' and Indian Red Group plants, thank you so much whoever donated the seeds.
The last picture is of an old nameless Primula which does well here.


Beautiful Leena! And how very nice to remember the spring days at this time of year :)
I like the 'Daybreak' pastel shades.
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: David Nicholson on December 18, 2018, 08:59:37 AM
A nice surprise: Primula vulgaris ssp. sibthorpii DJHT 0133 — flowering again in October?
This one’s new to me this year from Windcliff (Dan Hinkley’s current endeavor), so I don’t know if it’s usual or not; he lists it as blooming January through March.

Surely just a hybrid Primula, my garden's full of 'em!
Title: Re: Primula 2018
Post by: Leena on December 18, 2018, 04:27:53 PM
I like the 'Daybreak' pastel shades.

Thank you Gabriela, me too. I tried to look for seeds from it, but couldn't find any, or I was looking at the wrong time, and then autumn rains came and seed pods got bad.

forms of vulgaris and especially hybrids have the tendency to reflower if it's a warm fall.

Also my Indian reds plants had some fall flowers this year (it was a strange summer and all year), and this polyanthus Grand Canyon has flowers in November 1st with Colchicums in the background.
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