Hello David, I'm so pleased the primulas survived international travel and are growing well for you. What's a little confusion between friends? I'm that way myself almost all the time nowadays (and you're older than I, remember
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I'm sure the perfume will come, when they are flowering in mid spring and in good, warm weather though I've never had it under cover and the perfume may be stronger outdoors
I never "made" a cross. It was one of a batch of seedlings which grew from, incredibly, Primula x
pubescens `Rufus.' When the seedlings grew on a little, this one's foliage was so obviously different, larger, thicker, indented, that I put it aside from the others to see what happened, as you do. The sister seedlings were all of
pubescens type and in various shades of reddish and purplish brown, all very nice but not like `Rufus' and not like this one, which I called `Rose Window' eventually, for its pink colouring but also for its large, globular and quite formal head of flowers.
There was no possibility of a mistake. This was the first seed I'd ever collected from an
auricula type primula and at that time, I had literally no others in my garden, except
marginata and
minima, so I couldn't have confused the seed.
