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Susan Band

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Scottish Natives
« on: April 01, 2008, 10:05:44 AM »
Yesterday was such a lovely day here we met up with Julia and took a trip to Ben Lawers to look at the Saxifraga oppositifolia in flower. All the hill tops were covered in snow and there was a freezing wind but luckily you could just about photograph the plants from the car. Stopped of at cluny gardens on the way, Primula sonchifolia was flowering.
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2008, 11:13:41 AM »
That Primula is a British native!?
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2008, 11:24:06 AM »
Sorry Mark, I just added it since we saw it at Cluny, it is chinese
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2008, 12:04:22 PM »
That Primula is stunning.  Beautiful!!
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2008, 12:50:27 PM »
Beautiful Saxes Susan !
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2008, 04:37:52 PM »
well, I want it! ::)
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2008, 05:25:29 PM »
Primula sonchifolia-Ohhhhhhhhh! But perhaps not in my climate?
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2008, 05:35:23 PM »
Primula sonchifolia prefers a cool, dampish life, David.... sorry!   Doesn't even do very well here with us nowadays :'(  Which it really pains me to say on a day when I have been noting such a lot of frost and wind damage on plants.... hardly seems like too warm and dry a place right at this minute :P
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Re: Scottish Natives
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2008, 07:38:00 PM »
To those who don't know, Cluny gardens hold the asiatic primula collection and is well worth a visit in Spring.  It's about time I paid it a visit again.  The Sonchifolias were growing beside a steep burn.  I was told that this was the favoured position because if there was any summer heat, the burn had its own micro climate which kept them cool.  I have managed to grow and flower them in a shaded part of my garden in Ayr, but they succumbed to a period of unusually high temperatures for here - 27c - and then the dreaded vine weevil.   I am pretty sure that they could be grown in N. Ireland in a suitable location.  I remember buying one from Cluny along with some seed but I do not know if they still sell plants.
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