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Author Topic: Primula April 2007  (Read 23573 times)

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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #45 on: April 14, 2007, 05:44:12 PM »

  This is the first of my auricula`s
one of my own open pollinated seed
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #46 on: April 14, 2007, 07:37:20 PM »
very nice sahe of greenish yellow.

Like I said earlier I need Primulas so I bought 8 new ones today at our show from our own Primula specialist Peninsula Primulas
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2007, 07:45:42 PM »

  This is the first of my auricula`s
one of my own open pollinated seed

Nice little plant Derek and a lovely colour.
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #48 on: April 14, 2007, 07:47:13 PM »

Like I said earlier I need Primulas so I bought 8 new ones today at our show from our own Primula specialist Peninsula Primulas

Come on then TV Star are you going to show us  pictures of them?
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #49 on: April 14, 2007, 08:02:39 PM »
Derek, I do like the colour and the frilly flower is very feminine. You must be pleased with it from open pollenation.


Mark, yes, pix please, and what about Show pix too??
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #50 on: April 14, 2007, 08:20:40 PM »
It was a good price 50 cent and even though the foliage has taken a lot of beeting it complies with the 5 pips need for a show plant.

Joakim, that is a nice little plant, and as it only cost 50 cents it is a very nice little plant. Are you sure you do not have any Yorkshire blood in your veins??

I think I have confused you. At Shows organised by the National Auricula and Primula Society at least five pips (open flowers) on a stem are a requirement in most of the Auricula classes, apart from seedling classes where 3 is the norm. In Primula and Hybrid Primrose and Polyanthus Classes there is no particular requirement as plants are judged for effect with difficulty in cultivation being taken into account for rarer primulas.

Just to wet your appetite here are a few pictures of plants that won prizes in the various Hybrid Primrose and Polyanthus classes at Shows last year.
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #51 on: April 14, 2007, 08:28:54 PM »
Mark, it is Primula frondosa.
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #52 on: April 14, 2007, 09:32:43 PM »
Here are two from my garden.

Primula specuicola grown rather dry in my alpine house.
And Primula fasciculata in a bog garden.

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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #53 on: April 14, 2007, 09:42:16 PM »
Is the fasiculata growing in a peat block?

Yes I know know the Primula is frondosa. Thanks. I bought another two today. Mine is a stunner but it is suffereing as it is nothing compared to those I bought today. Maybe it thinks it is about to die and does it's best

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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #54 on: April 14, 2007, 09:54:18 PM »
Primula veris now open here.
Primula elatior suffering from recent heat and todays 28°C
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #55 on: April 14, 2007, 10:13:29 PM »
Mark, yes Primula fasciculata is growing in sopping wet peat blocks, near my pond.
This bog garden is about 30 square meters. This is more than 1 peat block.
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #56 on: April 14, 2007, 11:29:59 PM »
I must try that.

here are what I bought today. I may be a fool but time will tell. One still in bud is P. muscarioides so the photo will come later

'Kath Dryden'
latifolia cream form
marginata 'Grandiflora'
modesta var fauriae
'Silver Lace
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #57 on: April 14, 2007, 11:31:09 PM »
and about 15 flowering plugs of P. elatior
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #58 on: April 15, 2007, 09:42:12 PM »
Mark, nice plants but I'm not sure about your P. latifolia. If it is then it's a lime hater, but it could be a Primula x pubescens  Primula viscosa;  viscosa was the former name of Primula latifolia. (crazy mixed up plants!) Here's the leaf description for P latifolia from John Richard's "Primula"

"rather erect, bluntly and broadly spear shaped, to 18 x 5 cm, dull green, without meal but sticky-glandular, narrowing to a winged stalk about the length of the blade....."
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Re: Primula April 2007
« Reply #59 on: April 15, 2007, 11:42:48 PM »
Nice primulas every one 8)

David I must say that some of the winning primulas looks like they are not impossible to find in gardencenters  :o. They are nice but they do not seem to be impossible ;D. Maybe if I would have seen them in person I would have sen the size f flower scent texture etc. that a pic can not always show.

I love the idea that it is a pure beuty competision and that one does not need to know the background of the plant. I only knew of rules for tropical orchids and there it needs to be a named plant (I think).

Here there is an other plant that I bought for 80 cent that has a lovely colour and texture. The foliage seems to be smaller than the normal gardencenter version of vulgaris/polyanthus. Maybe it is due to the warmer climat in Portugal, but I have seen big foliage here as well so maybe the foliage will be smaller and let the flowers be more dominant. :)
Regarding my Yorkshire blood I have already admitted to having Småland blood in my veins and they make Scotts look like big spenders.
I can very seldom say no to a good deal. It is part of the plesure with gardening to buy plants to a good price. It is a matter of searching what exist around where one are. Often there is more value for money in the less famous places outside city centers.
I will gard these newly bought plants against any slug attack and see if there will be any seeds from them. These might go to Sweden to give some nice plants there as well.

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Joakim
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