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Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: Joakim B on February 12, 2007, 08:22:35 PM

Title: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: Joakim B on February 12, 2007, 08:22:35 PM: Hello I have now some pictures of the plants that looked so tired before.
Now they are in full bloom.
It is interesting that the pink one goes from almost white to salmon when opening the flower.
I had not seen this earlier.
Joakim
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: johanneshoeller on February 20, 2007, 06:28:23 PM: It is time to show more photos of Primulas, my favourite plants: 2 allionii with very large flowers, albenensis and a hirsuta hybrid!

Hans
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: David Nicholson on February 20, 2007, 06:38:47 PM: Very pretty Hans, I particularly like the hirsuta hybrid. Are they early for you this year? My Primulas under glass are still a little way from flowering.
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: johanneshoeller on February 20, 2007, 07:24:42 PM: This year the Primulas have started to flower much earlier than normally. The last year the main anthesis was opened at the end of April! I grow a lot of hirsuta and villosa hybrids from my own seeds.

Hans
from Austria
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: Maggi Young on February 20, 2007, 10:59:15 PM: Hans, it is the last of your primula pictures that is the P. albenensis, is it not?
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: johanneshoeller on February 21, 2007, 06:46:34 AM: Yes, the last is albenensis!

Hans
Austria
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: David Nicholson on February 22, 2007, 09:23:19 PM: The first of my greenhouse Primulas to flower this year.

Primula x juliana Bergfruhling Red

There might have been more than one, and there could have been Yellow, Pink and Blue as well as the Red, but as the seeds had just germinated last year and were sheltering close up to the North side of the house the window cleaner kicked the lot over. We were away for a couple of days at the time and all I was able to salvage was one tiny seedling. As I have said on another thread the photograph is part of my self inflicted "improve your photographic skills" project and there is no need to mark it out of ten.
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: Maggi Young on February 22, 2007, 09:45:31 PM: Couldn't help myself, David: seven out of ten for picture; two out of ten for dirty pot!
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on February 23, 2007, 08:48:12 AM: The picture is ok David - and so is the plant - don't worry too much about the pot... ;)
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: David Nicholson on February 23, 2007, 09:53:30 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on February 22, 2007, 09:45:31 PM
Couldn't help myself, David: seven out of ten for picture; two out of ten for dirty pot!

Ah! but I wasn't entereing it in a Show, and it's my greenhouse and my pot and I can have a dirty pot if I want, so there ;) Thanks for the 7/10, I thought about 5 myself.

Thanks Luc you are a gentleman.
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on February 23, 2007, 09:56:50 AM: Well David, every now and then, we "male chauvenist pigs" should stick together, shouldn't we ? ;D
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: David Shaw on February 23, 2007, 01:22:50 PM: David, Maggie is one of our top show judges and she will 'handbag' anybody for a dirty pot - I've still got the bruises to prove it ;)
Title: Re: Primula winter/early spring 2007
Post by: David Nicholson on February 23, 2007, 01:52:46 PM: David, I already have one "handbagging" expert, so far for 36 years, I don't think I can cope with another one ;D