Primula-February to April 2008

[Gerdk]

Thank you Hans,
Very fine selections, indeed!

Gerd

[derekb]

Just two from me today but not up to Hans lovely ones.
Primula sieboldii Mikardo.
and one from the same seed pod as my last semi double.


Derek

[David Nicholson]

Nice sieboldii Derek. I don't have any success with them at all. I struggled on for a couple of years with a few in the greenhouse but they did nothing so last year I planted them outside and lost the lot. They obviously don't like me.

[David Nicholson]

Gee it's a tough life when you have rogue Primulas popping up around the garden.  I could live with that!!  ...........
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A few pics here, just for Paul, of Primula vulgaris forms seeded around the garden. I even have a few growing through the lawn. Hope the first day at the new job goes OK Paul.

 

[Diane Clement]

A few pics here, just for Paul, of Primula vulgaris forms seeded around the garden. I even have a few growing through the lawn.

Good to see it's not just me with a Primula vulgaris weed problems.  Will you hoe out number 3 David?  I hope so   

Have you noticed any pattern with good/bad seedlings and whether they are pin or thrum eyed? 

[Maggi Young]

No need to hoe it out, surely? Do what I would do with it: give it to your mother-in-law 

[David Nicholson]

Hoe it out? Why ever should I do that, it's one of my favourites. After all it's only the white edging around the eye that stops it from being sibthorpii surely I'm rather fond of my mum-in-law Maggi

I haven't looked at them closely Diane but I will do.

PS. Diane please get a new Avatar quickly I feel ravenous every time I look at your present one

[Maggi Young]

I'm rather fond of my mum-in-law Maggi

As we all should be , David.  .......( I mean  fond of our inlaws, not yours, though I have nothing against yours, I just haven't met the lady!! )
Pity to hoe out a healthy plant, when it could go to someone who would truly appreciate its qualities

[mark smyth]

My sieboldii have seeded about and flowering now on tiny stems. David if you want one or two they're yours

[Diane Clement]

My sieboldii have seeded about and flowering now on tiny stems. David if you want one or two they're yours

Primula sieboldii - another rampant weed here!

Hoe it out? Why ever should I do that, it's one of my favourites. After all it's only the white edging around the eye that stops it from being sibthorpii surely I'm rather fond of my mum-in-law Maggi

Exactly, it's the white edging that does it.  And the flatflowers 

PS. Diane please get a new Avatar quickly I feel ravenous every time I look at your present one

OK, this may stop your ravenous feelings.  (Unless you are into frogs' legs, of course) 
  

[Iturraran]

Wow David,

I envy your soil, looks great! ... Love wild primulas too, they are kind of a welcomed weed in our garden, just as Helleborus viridis or Aquilegia vulgaris, which is now in flower.

[mark smyth]

Diane I think we need a real photo of you and not the one holding the pot. Ask someone to take a prtrait shot of you

[Martinr]

We are trying but she's incredibly camera shy

[Diane Clement]

We are trying but she's incredibly camera shy

OK, done, but still incognito    

(and a challenge to Cliff - Name that mountain behind me?)

[ranunculus]

Is it Mount Molyneux, just outside Wolverhampton?