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Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: johnstephen29 on April 16, 2015, 05:34:18 PM
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A few auriculas have started to flower in the garden and in pots. These are among my favourite of all the primula's.
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It is indeed that time of year again. The Theatre is filled up again.
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Nice plants, John.
Palustris, it looks a bit dark inside your Theatre. Have you considered covering the inside with alu-foil?
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No, the standard Auricula theatre was always dark coloured. either black or very dark green.
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Thanks Trond, I really like your auriculas theatre palustris.
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Thanks, not bad for an old pallet and some other bits of waste timber. Mind it is now not big enough so I may need to extend it. That's the trouble with people selling lovely looking Auriculas at AGS Shows etc.
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Yeah I know exactly what you mean, I really like the plant in the first plant great colours.
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That is an old form called Sirius.
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Nice 'Sirius' Eric, what's the second one please?
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Some borders and doubles, all planted out in the garden.
Names of most of these long forgotten.
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Brownie
Matthew Yates
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Old Black Isle Dusty Miller (just bought)
Shaun
Taffeta (just bought)
Winifred
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You have some great looking auriculas there Giles.
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Beautiful.
The white one of mine is just a generic white, no specific name.
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Beautiful.
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Having spent part of today potting up a lot of seedlings of Auriculas, one can only hope that some of them will be worth having.
Sadly there were no plants of great interest on sale at Solilhull on Saturday and we went home a different way to normal so no call in at Ashwoods either. Ah well, there is always next time.
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Primula auricula 'Prince of Orange'
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You can buy some great auricula plants at ashwoods Palustris, that last pic of mine, of the plant in the pot was from ashwoods, I was over that way earlier in the year.
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Athene
Brasso
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Two cracking plants, Chris. There's something to attractive about a good strong yellow auric with plenty of paste and yours is lovely. The greys can sometimes look a bit 'scruffy' to my eye, but 'Athene' is a nice tidy cultivar, clearly touched by the gods.
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Super plants in this thread. I've recently become almost obsessed with auriculas as Barnhaven seed sown in November 2013 is flowering, some for the first, some for the second time. The current autumn flowers are not quite up to the standard of last spring's but are still so welcome with their lovely fragrance. The doubles are especially good and one I think I'll name. It is an ochre colour, fully double, each petal crimped and scalloped and with crimson shading towards the centre. The back of each petal is fully crimson. 'Flamenco' seems an appropriate name. When it stops raining I'll take a picture. There's also a fully double bright orange, same colour as Wim's 'Prince of Orange.'
I love your 'Ahtene' Chris.
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Blue Wave ( thanks to our friend David Nicholson)
Blush Baby - don't you hate the names people adorn these flowers with?
Hinton Fields - this one usually does a little better for me
Sugar Plum Fairy
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Thanks for your comments folks. Must try to find Prince of Orange, what a striking colour that one is! Besotted with these primulas here at this time of year. Will post a few more as they open. Here's Kusum Krishna for starters. It's a cracking plant and I just love it!
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Chris,
*Wonderful*
..all in pots/under glass ?
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Great plants chris & wim, Lesley are you going to show us some of your plants😀
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Hi Giles
Yes all in pots. Under glass and practically no winter watering but they go out into North facing part of cold frame after repotting end June. I do keep them out in my theatre when they are in flower but if it looks like rain I pop the farinous ones back in the greenhouse.... Anyone know a source for Prince of Orange?
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Hi Giles
Yes all in pots. Under glass and practically no winter watering but they go out into North facing part of cold frame after repotting end June. I do keep them out in my theatre when they are in flower but if it looks like rain I pop the farinous ones back in the greenhouse.... Anyone know a source for Prince of Orange?
Hi Chris....I got this young cutting from a friend last autumn. I'll ask him if he has any for sale.
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Wim,
That would be great. I googled it but not in distribution as far as I could see. It's a marvellous colour! If there is anything I have I would be happy to swap
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Wim,
That would be great. I googled it but not in distribution as far as I could see. It's a marvellous colour! If there is anything I have I would be happy to swap
That's great, I'll send you a PM.
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Mersey Tiger
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Tweeted by Jenny Wells ( of the Himalyan Garden (http://www.himalayangarden.com), the super rhododendron and sculpture garden near Ripon) from a visit the other day to Harlow Carr -
This is auricula 'Helen Ruane' - I thought it very unusual and lovely.
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That's a very beautiful auricula Maggi thanks for showing.
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Lesley are you going to show us some of your plants😀
I will in due course John. It is autumn here at present and though some are flowering, they make better flowers in spring - as easily seen in the images already in this thread. The double ochre/crimson I'll take a picture of today since I mentioned it but others I'll wait for a few months.
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Oh Maggi, that 'Helen Ruane' is incredible. No chance of getting these named plants here in NZ unfortunately but if anyone would care to post some seed sources here, I'd be very grateful (or in a PM if you prefer). I'll be getting more seed from Barnhaven later in the year but would welcome some other sources as well. Thanks.
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A lovely auricula Maggi, another to go on my list!
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Good lass Lesley, I look forward to seeing them :)
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I acquired this Auricula when working at the Cruickshank Garden. It came from the late Alec Duguid when he was retired and living at Ballater. I do not know if it was ever widely distributed. There were two - Craig Dubh and Craig Ruadh. Not sure if names and spelling are accurate. I think this is Craig Ruadh.
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What a lovely plant - such a velvety texture and that white ring/yellow star is very pretty. Your spellings are correct for the Gaelic, although spelling is variable so you often see 'creag' as well as 'craig'. I presume Craig Dubh (translating as 'black rock') was a darker colour than Craig Ruadh ('red rock')?
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I've never seen either of them listed.
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I can't remember seeing them flowering together. It was a long time ago. As far as I remember the parent plants died and rooted cuttings were stolen from the frame at the Cruickshank garden. I'm not absolutely sure which one I have but assume it is Craig Ruadh because of the reddish colouring.
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For anyone within striking distance of West Norfolk Westacre Walled Garden (well worth a visit) is hosting an Auricula Day tomorrow 2nd May:
http://www.westacregardens.co.uk/events.html (http://www.westacregardens.co.uk/events.html)
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I love your red Roma, especially well set off by the almost white leaves.
Those are beauties in the Westacre gallery.
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Another couple of auriculas in flower, first is one I got from ashwoods when I went last year on a family day out and the second is auricula symphony, which I think is looking a bit sickly :(
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A lovely plant John but I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong as clicking on each link separately, I get 3 identical pictures. Was that intended?
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I've posted the Newbottle Show pics of auriculas under events. Wasn't sure whether to put them here or there, but the other show pics were also under events so that's where I put mine.....
edit by maggi - and here is the link to that thread
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13159.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13159.0) 8)
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Hi Lesley no it should be two photos of the ashwoods plant and one of the symphony plant, the owners of Flickr have in there wisdom have been changing it, it is now more tricky to copy and save using an iPad. Have these people never heard the phrase it it's not broken don't fix it. I'll sort it when I come home from work tomorrow.
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A lovely plant John but I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong as clicking on each link separately, I get 3 identical pictures. Was that intended?
Lesley,
you can find the other image as a small icon (in a series of small icons) under neath the main pic,
cheers
fermi
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A lovely plant John but I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong as clicking on each link separately, I get 3 identical pictures. Was that intended?
All sorted now lesley ;D