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Title: Primula June
Post by: Blue-bellied Frog on June 01, 2008, 02:08:59 PM
In 2005, I received seeds from a Botanical Garden (I will not say witch one) suppose to be Cortusa matthioli var. congesta, abd C. matt. var yesonensis.
I now have those flowers. Someone told me it was P. auriculas.
I'm still waiting to find seeds of Cortusas, but am not angry.
Bernard



Edit: I have made this a new page for the month of June!  Maggi
Title: Primula June
Post by: Blue-bellied Frog on June 01, 2008, 02:11:28 PM
La suite.
Title: Primula June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 01, 2008, 10:45:46 PM
Some interesting auriculas there, worth a little hand pollinating but how could ANYONE, let alone a botanic garden, mistake these for Cortusa??? ??? Maybe not angry Bernard but totally bemused I should think!
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Magnar on June 04, 2008, 08:20:11 PM
Took these pics today

Primula strumosa
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Primula%20strumosa%2008.jpg)

Primula rusbyi
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Primula%20rusbyi%2008.jpg)
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Blue-bellied Frog on June 06, 2008, 12:56:20 PM
Two P. auriculas and P. veris
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: David Nicholson on June 06, 2008, 07:39:01 PM
Takes me back to our Spring, thank you Bernard.
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Linda_Foulis on June 09, 2008, 12:23:03 AM
I popped into the SRGC forum to see if I could identify my 'Cortusa matthioli'.  I don't grow Primula's but that's what it is, isn't it?

Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Maggi Young on June 09, 2008, 11:44:27 AM
Hello, Linda, nice to hearfrom you!
 Your plant is a Primula sieboldii form  8)
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Linda_Foulis on June 09, 2008, 02:02:38 PM
Thank you Maggi. 
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Blue-bellied Frog on June 11, 2008, 01:40:41 AM
I think these are the last for this year.
David, my spring is finished since 4 days. 30 °C in the shade today.

Primula auricula
 Primula mistassinica
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Magnar on June 15, 2008, 08:01:54 AM
Primula palmata flowering for the first time in my garden:

(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Primula%20palmata%2008.jpg)
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Giles on June 15, 2008, 10:13:59 PM
Dear Bernard,
I'm pleased to see you've posted pictures of  P.mistassinica.
I've just got back today from your wonderful Canada (its SO big!) and was delighted to see great swathes of
P.mistassinica at 'Singing Sands' / Dorcas Bay on the shore of Lake Huron. It was at its peak!
It was weird seeing things which we covet here in the UK such as Trilliums growing in such abundance.
But guess we don't have the mosquitoes and blackflies (!)
I'll try posting some pics when I'm more organised
Giles
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 15, 2008, 10:34:45 PM
I have a good batch of nursery plants which I grew from SRGC seed 2006/7. I have them as Primula monroi ssp.   yargongensis and though now in winter mode, they looked, when they flowered, like a larger version of P. scotica or around the size of P. farinosa and they are clumping a little in their pots. Fair enough but they are nothing like what I used to have (from Jack Drake's seed I think) as P. yargongensis and which I was hoping to replace. It had taller stems - to about 30cms if I remember - and a much larger flower in lovely lavender shades, paler or deeper. While I like the current plant (below) I'd like the other as well. Any suggestions as to what it could have been? I don't have Richards' book unfortunately.

This isn't a good picture, and I should have removed the small cress. Didn't even notice it at the time.
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Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Blue-bellied Frog on June 16, 2008, 01:16:31 AM
Gilles,
Even if  Primula mistassinica and P. laurentiana are growing in Québec, I had to sow seeds to see them.


Bernard
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Giles on June 16, 2008, 04:27:53 AM
Here they are, (resizing wasn't as complicated as I thought it might be!)
1. Primula mistassinica
2. P.m 'en masse'
3. Habitat -shore/mire on edge of Lake Huron 2 weeks ago.
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Paul T on June 29, 2008, 02:03:32 AM
Wonderful pics everyone.  So many fantastic Primula I've never seen before.  I just have to comment on Magnar's P. palmata.... what a stunner.  Those leaves alone are worthwhile, except you'd be thinking Pelargonium or Geranium to look at them without flowers.  VERY, very nice. :D
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Giles on June 29, 2008, 01:57:27 PM
You'll have to humour me with this one,
but its my first ever floret on my first ever P.poissonii
its the most shocking day-glo pink
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 29, 2008, 09:59:26 PM
Well, it IS unfortunately, but the colour grows on one. Looks best with bluish species like the bluer forms of denticulata and sieboldii. Keep well away from late cockburniana flowers and the rusty-coloured candelabras. ;D
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: fermi de Sousa on June 30, 2008, 03:11:20 AM
Keep well away from late cockburniana flowers and the rusty-coloured candelabras. ;D
Oh, I don't know ,Lesley, they could produce some startling hybrids!
Just to confuse things, here's a primula vulgaris/acaulis variety which I got from a Market and which I've recently posted to another thread. I like the pencilling.
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cheers
fermi
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Paul T on June 30, 2008, 04:41:25 AM
Fermi,

Is it perfumed?  That colour usually isn't, but you never know.  Few people here seem to realise that some of the "polyanthus" that we get in nurseries have quite strong perfumes when warm (don't seem to release it on cold days).  The strong pinks and reds seem to be the best of them, and some of the yellows.  Unfortunately other yellows can be quite offensive so you have to be careful which ones you stick your nose into.  On a warm day some of the nice ones you can smell a metre or two away from them (i.e when you're walking past).  I thought it was worth mentioning in case you hadn't noticed it..... I have bought them at times on scent as much as flower colour.
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 30, 2008, 05:01:52 AM
Well there's the wonderful 'Inverewe' of course, said to be a cockburniana with a red japonica. We should be hand pollinating as much as possible down here in the SH since importing is virtually impossible. We need to be making our own plants.

I had some seed arrive today from Norway, of Meconopsis quintuplinervia, just posted 4 days ago. Not bad! :D especially as it reached my box on what was still yesterday in the NH.
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Giles on June 30, 2008, 10:50:29 AM
Dear Fermi,
Maybe you should look at Barnhaven's 'Striped Victorians'
or Thompson and Morgan's 'Discovering Stripes'
http://www.barnhavenprimroses.com/results.php?category=7
http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/uk/en/product/6777/1
They're not quite my style!
It always amazes me when I wake up in the morning, to find that the 'night shift' have been out and busy overnight!
If you're not able to import these yourself, I'm sure we could fix something up.
Giles
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Paul T on June 30, 2008, 11:05:13 AM
Giles,

I feel a bit the same way here..... it's just that there are usually more in the northern hemisphere "night shift" than there us of us southerners!!  ;D
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Susan Band on June 30, 2008, 04:48:14 PM
Couldn't resist putting in this pic. of Primula vaillii growing for seed.
Susan
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Lvandelft on June 30, 2008, 05:07:11 PM
I love your "nursery" pictures Susan.
It remembers me of good old days!
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 30, 2008, 10:42:45 PM
Well really Susan, how greedy can you get? This is blatant boasting. ;D (But well worth it :))

I'm not too keen on the striped polys either but I do quite like the muted Victorians in the Barnhaven link.
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 30, 2008, 11:15:32 PM
Where is page 3? There are several posts in my Inbox for this topic (and also for Chinese Gesneriads) but they don't appear here, for me. They were made in the UK during the small hours of this morning, NZ time. Should have come up by now.
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on July 01, 2008, 08:55:01 AM
Couldn't resist putting in this pic. of Primula vaillii growing for seed.
Susan

No need to put up any resistance Susan, they're a great sight !  :o
Especially as I can hardly keep them alive for more than one season...
Thanks for showing !
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Susan Band on July 01, 2008, 09:19:52 AM
Thanks Luit, Lesley, Luc.
I seem to be the only person in Scotland growing plants in this way, I love it.
When I grew alpines in pots and sold them wholesale I had to have them sold just before they flowered so never really saw the fruits of my labour, now I can enjoy them at their best.
Luc, P. vaillii are really fickle, some plants last for years yet others barly survive a season. This bed is in its second flowering year but there are some plants which are dieing amonst perfectly healthy ones.
Susan
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on July 01, 2008, 09:22:05 AM
Thanks for boosting my ego Susan !  ;D
Title: Re: Primula June
Post by: Paul T on July 01, 2008, 09:59:08 AM
Susan,

Tried it a couple of times as purchased plants, but no luck.  Must try it from seed one year to see if that is any easier.  That display is beautiful.  Oh to be able to grow Primulas out in the open like that here!!  ::)  Can't please everyone, now can we. ;D
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