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Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: SueG on October 11, 2009, 10:34:24 AM

Title: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: SueG on October 11, 2009, 10:34:24 AM

I bought a small plant of this at Ponteland show yesterday but can find nothing out about it. I've tried searching the forum but again nothing. Does anyone have any more info about this plant, I believe it's not particularly common but don't know why. The plant I got seems a really healthy potful so lack of vigour seems unlikely, maybe it just doesn't flower well.
Thanks
Sue

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: David Nicholson on October 11, 2009, 05:31:37 PM

Sue, never heard of it before. I hesitate to say (particularly to someone with your experience) but are you sure it's a marginata and not a pubescens or an Auricula ???

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: Martinr on October 11, 2009, 06:59:21 PM

Sue, try googling it. There are a number of link suggesting it's P. auricula rather than marginata and a link to a photograph on the AGS site forum taken at Harrogate in 2008

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: mark smyth on October 11, 2009, 07:08:43 PM

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/North+of+England+Show+BC+Sections/131/ (http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/North+of+England+Show+BC+Sections/131/)

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: Maggi Young on October 11, 2009, 07:46:25 PM

I was just about to post that link myself! Seeing the photo there you can see the super toothed margins to the leaves which certainly look as though marginata might be involved..... with auricula for the colour??????

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: Lesley Cox on October 12, 2009, 01:43:02 AM

Was just about to make the same remark Maggi. Auricula flower over marginata foliage. If one thinks of it as a yellow marginata form, it would have to be quite special. :D

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on October 12, 2009, 01:50:13 AM

I hazard the guess that it's of American origin. One of the oddities of the horticultural world is that American cultivar names are often related to food: Kniphofia 'Vanilla', Echinacea 'Macaroni and Cheese', E. 'Tomato Soup', etc.

[If someone points out that these examples did not originate in the US, my theory is toast.]

Title: Re: Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet
Post by: Paul T on October 12, 2009, 03:47:52 AM

Rodger,

Well at least if your theory is toast it will go well with the Tomato Soup and the Macaronia and Cheese.  ;)