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Gellytroch
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Primula in window boxes
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April 26, 2019, 10:33:04 PM »
Hi folks
I haven't posted for a good while but I thought I would share a couple of pics of my primulas in window boxes. A bit of a random selection here. All plants originally came from Susan Tindall's excellent Timpany Nursery in Spa, Co. Down.
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Gail
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So don't forget my friend to smell the flowers
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April 27, 2019, 08:12:57 AM »
Those are so lovely - such a good use of a windowsill!
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Gail Harland
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Gellytroch
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April 27, 2019, 08:25:44 AM »
The plants are a mix of marginata, pubescens and auricula types.
P. 'Linda Pope', P. x 'Zoe', P. x 'Crimson Velvet'
P. x 'Susan', P. x 'Lindum Rapture', P. x 'Pat Barwick'
P. marginata' Adrian Evans'
P. x 'Mustard Sauce'
P. x 'Piers Telford'
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Gellytroch
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April 27, 2019, 08:28:45 AM »
Thanks Gail
That early splash of colour always gives me a lift in the Spring.
Dave
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ashley
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April 27, 2019, 09:09:41 AM »
They're beautiful Dave. Do you grow them under glass then move to the windowsill for display? Very effective.
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Ashley Allshire, Cork, Ireland
Gellytroch
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April 27, 2019, 09:35:20 AM »
Hi Ashley,
No, I don't have a greenhouse and they stay on my east facing windowsills all year round. They're semi-plunged in sand and the sand and pots are topped with grit. I would plunge them deeper if my window boxes were bigger but I knocked those up from scrap packing wood about 6 years ago as it was all I had at the time and the plants seem to do ok like that.
All the best
Dave
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Gellytroch
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April 27, 2019, 09:42:24 AM »
Ashley,
I do have another 2 window boxes on another sill and I swap the plants round a bit at flowering time as they come into flower. Between the marginata's, pubescens' and the auriculas they give great colour from early March right into May.
Dave.
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Gellytroch
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April 27, 2019, 09:55:07 AM »
Ashley
These are my 'change-out' boxes, if you know what I mean!
Dave
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April 27, 2019, 08:37:57 PM »
A lovely splash of colour, Dave. I must start looking after my primulas better.
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Roma Fiddes, near Aberdeen in north East Scotland.
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April 27, 2019, 08:43:29 PM »
Primula not 'Blairside Yellow'.
An unnamed hybrid from Primula 'Rumbling Bridge Strain'
I pricked out some self sown seedlings from pots neighbouring this plant. (There were no other primulas nearby). All the seedlings which have flowered are a reddish purple shade.
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Roma Fiddes, near Aberdeen in north East Scotland.
Gellytroch
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April 28, 2019, 06:54:18 AM »
Really lovely and interesting plants Roma. You've inspired me to collect seed and grow some new plants myself!
Have a good growing year
Dave
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ashley
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April 28, 2019, 06:59:53 AM »
Quote from: Gellytroch on April 27, 2019, 09:55:07 AM
These are my 'change-out' boxes, if you know what I mean!
All looking very good Dave. It seems an excellent way to grow and display them
Those are lovely plants Roma.
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Ashley Allshire, Cork, Ireland
Gellytroch
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April 28, 2019, 07:31:19 AM »
That yellow Rumbling Bridge hybrid looks as though it would be highly scented Roma? Great leaf colour too!
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