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Joakim B

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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2009, 12:01:59 PM »
Nice Primulas
In the botanical garden of Ajuda Lisbon, Portugal I saw some primulas and was about to tell my son that these are the same as the Swedish ones (Primula veris) but looking at the tag told me differently. I can see some difference but would never have imagined it to come from so far away.
It is Primula reticulata and is from Nepal as seen from the tag.
I add the tag and also the fact that it was a lot of plants so it should not be a stray plant that ended up there some how.
They might be wrong so please let me know if it is wrong.
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2009, 06:08:28 PM »
Primula Tinney's Moonlight x edgeworthii, a cross I made many years ago. Both original parents died soon after but this is vigorous & is in the open garden. (Slugs love to eat the flowers.)
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2009, 07:31:55 PM »
It looks very like P. veris to me Joakim. I think P. reticulata is from a different section, same as PP. sikkimensis and florindae. The flower is yellow and bell-shaped but the stem should be from 20 to 45cms tall and the leaves up to 30 cms long.
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2009, 01:53:05 PM »
I just thought that the flowers were a bit short but I presume they will be longer as they open.
So my hunches are correct :)
Pitty that that means that the garden is wrong :-\
The garden is very nice and these were the only two miss namings I saw.
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Joakim
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2009, 03:05:26 PM »
I think these will be the last of the P.allionii pics.

Crystal opens white and goes pink. Mary Berry I found sets seed and I think all my seedlings were from that.

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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2009, 10:59:49 PM »
Not as spectacular as those beautiful allionii but small and still nice

Primula hirsuta
Primula kialensis
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2009, 07:42:25 PM »
A few more to keep you going. Please excuse the dirty pots and poor background. I've got my better half working on a backboard as I write.

Primula Alexine
Primula Anna Griffith
Primula Broadwell Milkmaid
Primula Broadwell Ruby
and finally Primula Edinburgh



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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2009, 07:54:31 PM »
Lovely pix all, thank you!
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2009, 08:41:44 PM »
Nice to see that the Primula season has really arrived at last. I note from my picture files that I posted one of my P. allionii 'Crowsley Variety' on the 18 February last year but this year I may be lucky by the end of this week.

Lovely little P. kialensis Tony, is it easy to please?

Nice selection Martin I hadn't seen P. 'Alexine' before. I really must get a 'Broadwell Milkmaid' this year. Martin, if your pots are dirty you should see mine! In fact when I do take some pictures of my stuff I shall be careful to crop all the pots out of the pictures otherwisw Maggi will only shout at me again.
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2009, 12:55:20 PM »

Lovely little P. kialensis Tony, is it easy to please?


David it must be if I am growing it! I got them as seedlings from Dieter Zschummel when we visited him last summer.it just sat there all winter as a tiny golden dormant bud.It is less than an inch high.
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2009, 05:56:15 PM »
Some more primulas:
1. P.atrodentata (about 2cm tall) - to give you a sense of scale, it's in the middle of a 3" pot - it's tiny.
2. P.warshenewskiana just coming through.
3. P.allionii 'Elizabeth Baker'
 
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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2009, 06:01:51 PM »
4...it thinks it's 'Napoleon'  ;D
5. P.hoffmaniana
6. The last of 'Tantallon'

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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2009, 08:34:22 PM »
Very nice indeed Giles.

Here are the first of my Primulas this year:-

Primula 'Helen Evans'
Primula allionii 'Mary Berry'. Dropped when I was re-potting last year hence the dirty leaf.
Primula x allionii 'Clarence Elliott'. A Joe Elliott 1982 cross from Primula allionii and the then 'White Linda Pope'
Primula 'Lindum Moonlight'
Primula x allionii 'Wharfedale Superb'
Primula x allionii 'Beatrice Wooster'. A cross made in 1947 by K R Wooster Primula allionii and 'Linda Pope'
Primula allionii 'Adrian Jones'



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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2009, 08:53:38 PM »
Dear David,
'Adrian Jones' is the one I like the best.
Where do you get your 'allionii's' from?
I got mine from Field House Nursery last year, and am overjoyed that they put on such a show.
.......I feel a spending spree coming on.....

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Re: Primulas - March.
« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2009, 09:19:58 PM »
Giles, 'Mary Berry' and 'Adrian Jones' came from Peninsula Primulas. Some of the others may have come from Susan Tindall at Timpany Nursery-I can't check which because her Web Site domain looks as though it has been given up-anyone know what is happening there?
Others I have probably picked up at NAPS Shows.
David Nicholson
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