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Susan Band
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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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April 01, 2008, 11:13:41 AM »
That Primula is a British native!?
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Sorry Mark, I just added it since we saw it at Cluny, it is chinese
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Susan Band, Pitcairn Alpines, ,PERTH. Scotland
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April 01, 2008, 12:04:22 PM »
That Primula is stunning. Beautiful!!
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April 01, 2008, 12:50:27 PM »
Beautiful Saxes Susan !
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April 01, 2008, 04:37:52 PM »
well, I want it!
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April 01, 2008, 05:25:29 PM »
Primula sonchifolia-Ohhhhhhhhh! But perhaps not in my climate?
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David Nicholson
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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
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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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Tom Cameron
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