Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: Gellytroch on April 26, 2019, 10:33:04 PM
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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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Those are so lovely - such a good use of a windowsill!
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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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Thanks Gail
That early splash of colour always gives me a lift in the Spring.
Dave :)
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They're beautiful Dave. Do you grow them under glass then move to the windowsill for display? Very effective.
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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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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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Ashley
These are my 'change-out' boxes, if you know what I mean!
Dave
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A lovely splash of colour, Dave. I must start looking after my primulas better.
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Primula not 'Blairside Yellow'.
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An unnamed hybrid from Primula 'Rumbling Bridge Strain'
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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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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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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 8)
Those are lovely plants Roma.
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That yellow Rumbling Bridge hybrid looks as though it would be highly scented Roma? Great leaf colour too!