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Maggi Young

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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #375 on: August 13, 2012, 09:28:42 PM »
Looking around the forum posts, I think there are clearly some plants doing "out of season" things.... some here and there, in different genera in different places.... but as the season's get more muddled, I'm beginning to wonder what exactly "normal" might be?  :-\

 See the Scilla thread, for example... there are others...
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #376 on: August 13, 2012, 09:43:52 PM »
Often primulas will flower in autumn oif they've had a wet summer. I believe the UK summer was a bit moist earlier on? :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #377 on: August 13, 2012, 09:46:34 PM »
To be fair, here in Aberdeen we must have had about four or five fine to good days in the last week - starting raining again earlier, though..... :'(
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #378 on: August 14, 2012, 05:42:53 PM »
It's definitely been a wet summer, so that would explain it.  "a bit moist" would be something of an understatement!  :))

I guess it means that we can grow things like meconopsis without any special treatment though.  Mine's growing like a cabbage!
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #379 on: August 29, 2012, 06:14:48 PM »
Primula seed from Chadwell but I don't know the species. They look a bit like P capitata mooreana.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #380 on: August 29, 2012, 07:27:21 PM »
I would guess at capitata Trond.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #381 on: August 30, 2012, 08:39:08 PM »
Thanks David, I would too although it isn't quite like the ones I have had before.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #382 on: September 11, 2012, 05:21:51 PM »
I've *still* got primroses flowering!   :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #383 on: September 12, 2012, 04:55:01 PM »
Quote from: David at Plantedd on September 11, 2012, 05:21:51 PM
I've *still* got primroses flowering!   :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #384 on: December 21, 2012, 01:47:48 PM »
Regular readers of these pages will know that I used to grow a lot of the smaller Primulas (and Auriculas) under glass but a few years ago lack of space in the greenhouse took it's toll and I sold them all. A general review of the greenhouse contents and getting rid of some genera I liked but didn't have the space to grow well has now meant a few Primulas are beginning to creep back in there. Here's the first one to flower this season- Primula 'Lindum Moonlight'.

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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #385 on: December 21, 2012, 04:47:05 PM »
very nice David. I think I had one P.allionii out at Christmas for several years, "Elizabeth Burrow" but it looks as if it is some way off this year.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #386 on: December 21, 2012, 05:36:24 PM »
A nice splash of colour in my greenhouse
Double Auricula 'Shaun' bred by Graeme Butler of Rumbling Bridge Nursery
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #387 on: December 21, 2012, 05:40:03 PM »
Sorry Roma

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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #388 on: December 21, 2012, 05:41:28 PM »
Changed it while you were posting, Jean.  I should have checked before I posted.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #389 on: December 22, 2012, 02:41:50 PM »
Having stayed out of the remoter parts of the garden - 30 feet from the back door -I ventured out for a look at my Asiatic primulas.  Primula nana is almost flowering and the Whiteii are in full bud. All this with no overhead protection and complete neglect on my part.  It looks as if I will have to go out and dig them up for potting if I wish to see the flowers
I also noted my pots of pulsatillas are producing new green growth and the dwarf irises should be flowering in about 10 days.  Although these plants are well forward, there is no sign pf any dwarf narcissus or crocus as yet  My biggest surprise is the paraquilegia anemonoides in the raised bed.  It has not died back and still has green leaves showing whereas my other plant potted and in the greenhouse has died back..  I am at a loss as to know how to treat them.  Will they both survive? Time will tell !
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