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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #180 on: April 29, 2013, 11:01:49 PM »
I was even more sorry I was unable to attend the Highland SRGC show in Nairn last Saturday when I  saw all the great primulas  for sale - see here : pic 056
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10388.msg275221#msg275221    8)
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #181 on: April 30, 2013, 08:16:34 PM »
Lovely little plant Helen.
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #182 on: April 30, 2013, 09:25:26 PM »
Last Saturday was the NAPS Midlands section auricula show at Knowle. With no auriculas up to the mark I took a selection of this years batch of primula seedlings to try my luck. Delighted to have got best seedling in show with an open pollinated Northern Lights plant, with 2nd and 3rd in the same seedling class with plants of same breeding. Forth photo is of an Ossett snowball open pollinated seedling that was one of the 2nd prize open pairs. Next job names...

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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #183 on: April 30, 2013, 09:54:38 PM »
Well done Richard, some lovely plants there.
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #184 on: May 03, 2013, 05:22:36 PM »
Out and about yesterday evening I discovered what looked like a pure white yellow centred P. vulgaris shining out from the dark of a hedge. I picked a flower and in daylight its a lovely palest cream. Are these common? Saw lots of pinks ones also
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #185 on: May 03, 2013, 08:09:13 PM »
Well, Primulaceae anyway:-

Soldanella montana-three years since it last flowered
S. villosa
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #186 on: May 04, 2013, 03:04:38 PM »
I'll stick with what I'm familiar with, David  ;)
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #187 on: May 04, 2013, 03:05:54 PM »
Eden Greenfinch
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #188 on: May 04, 2013, 03:07:51 PM »
Some Japanese sieboldii cultivars (the droopy ones are meant to be like that)

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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #189 on: May 04, 2013, 07:16:42 PM »
As you might have guessed from the name Giles Buckland Wine has a Devon connection. It was introduced in 1965 by the then Champernowne Nurseries in Buckland Monochorum (close to The Garden House and Keith Wiley's Wildside Garden and Nursery). Source Peter Ward's very useful book "Primroses & Polyanthus A guide to the Species and Hybrids" Batsford 1997.

Nice sieboldii by the way I can't grow them.
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #190 on: May 04, 2013, 10:28:50 PM »
Is anyone buying Joe Kennedys Irish Primroses?
http://www.johnstowngardencentre.ie/Shop_Search_Results.aspx?bizsearch=primula

They are fabulous. He has one with petaloid calyx
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #191 on: May 04, 2013, 11:07:09 PM »
Mark they are not available here,I asked my brother in Wexford if he could get me some as they advertised for sale in a garden centre there ,but when he went there was none.

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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #192 on: May 04, 2013, 11:12:42 PM »
Michael, Johnstown do mail order and they come very well packed
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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #193 on: May 05, 2013, 09:09:24 AM »
Some Japanese sieboldii cultivars (the droopy ones are meant to be like that)
Giles - nice sieboldii any of them named? mine are now in full flower and looking good, Now doing the usual count up of how many have turned up their toes over the winter. The Japanese ones seem to be less partial to our conditions here in south Wales than the UK bred ones.

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Re: Primula 2013
« Reply #194 on: May 05, 2013, 11:58:10 AM »
More fine plants Giles 8)

Here:
Primula deflexa   
P. macrophylla
P. munroi
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P. sinopurpurea
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