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Mark Griffiths

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Primulas 2012
« on: January 22, 2012, 07:01:51 PM »
I can't believe I'm the first! I expect I'm not and you'll have to move it.

P. allionii Elizabeth Burrow has been out since Christmas - looking a bit better now. P. allionii Pinkie is also out - unfortunately most of the plants are dusted with sulphur and look like something that would be growing on Miss Faversham's windowsill


 
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2012, 07:13:30 PM »
Good to see such early blooms. 
I like Primula allionii and its assorted forms but I cannot bear the feel of the sticky foliage.
That, and my reluctance to sit with tweezers cleaning off all the grotty leaves every year, means that I was quite quick to give up on them. :-[
I have considerable admiration for my friends who will sit for hours cleaning their allionii plants up.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 07:37:55 PM »
I don't do much cleaning up.

For years I didn't ever water the pots either - like 5 year stretch - only watering the plunge.

In the new greenhouse it seems I have to water the pots as well and so I spend a few minutes pulling dead leaves off.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2012, 11:33:39 AM »
Some seedlings: sibthorpii and a micro-primula (Barnaven's 'Blue Julianas' strain).



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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 07:57:19 PM »
I wasn't sure whether to post in this thread or in the I'm so Happy thread.  After the postman had been yesterday I found a large cardboard box in the greenhouse.  It contained 12 Irish Primulas, 6 each of 'Drumcliffe' and 'Innisfree' which I had ordered from Suttons a week ago.  I could not resist the offer at £4.99.  They are much bigger plants than I expected and were beautifully packed with a small stake in each pot to keep them from moving and crushing the foliage.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2012, 03:36:24 PM »
6 months from seed:
Primula malacoides and Primula x kewensis





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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2012, 04:21:05 PM »
I wasn't sure whether to post in this thread or in the I'm so Happy thread.

Looking forward to see photos of the flowers, such large healthy plants should be blooming soon.  I'd be doing the "Happy Dance" too.   ;D

6 months from seed:

Giles - was the seed collected from your own plants? 6 months seems incredibly fast.  They are all beautiful!

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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2012, 05:47:32 PM »
Julie,
It's a commercial seed strain: 'Prima'
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2012, 03:12:46 AM »
Thank you Giles. Looks like you're doing an excellent job growing them.  :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2012, 10:08:02 PM »
A wonderful scent from a few flowers in the greenhouse. :)
Sorry about the leaves
Had problems locating three very hungry caterpillars
and a couple of slugs. :-[
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2012, 03:29:10 AM »
Cheryl - Very pretty even with the nibbles.

What is the very dark one?
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2012, 06:42:34 PM »
It was seed grown from Garnet Cowichans.
The original plants came from Barnhaven.
I love it's very dark colour and the purple edge to the leaves and stem.
The scent to this one is rather odd, to me it smells like cough syrup...
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2012, 09:37:19 PM »
The scent to this one is rather odd, to me it smells like cough syrup...

Hopefully, a good flavor of cough syrup.  :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2012, 09:43:35 PM »
The scent to this one is rather odd, to me it smells like cough syrup...

Hopefully, a good flavor of cough syrup.  :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #14 on: February 18, 2012, 09:48:11 PM »
I too prefer Dionaea muscipula.

 


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