Primula in window boxes

[Gellytroch]

Hi folks

I haven't posted for a good while but I thought I would share a couple of pics of my primulas in window boxes. A bit of a random selection here. All plants originally came from Susan Tindall's excellent Timpany Nursery in Spa, Co. Down.

[Gail]

Those are so lovely - such a good use of a windowsill!

[Gellytroch]

The plants are a mix of marginata, pubescens and auricula types.

P. 'Linda Pope', P. x 'Zoe', P. x 'Crimson Velvet'

P. x 'Susan', P. x 'Lindum Rapture', P. x 'Pat Barwick'

P. marginata' Adrian Evans'

P. x 'Mustard Sauce'

P. x 'Piers Telford'

[Gellytroch]

Thanks Gail

That early splash of colour always gives me a lift in the Spring.

Dave 

[ashley]

They're beautiful Dave.  Do you grow them under glass then move to the windowsill for display?  Very effective.

[Gellytroch]

Hi Ashley, 

No, I don't have a greenhouse and they stay on my east facing windowsills all year round. They're semi-plunged in sand and the sand and pots are topped with grit. I would plunge them deeper if my window boxes were bigger but I knocked those up from scrap packing wood about 6 years ago as it was all I had at the time and the plants seem to do ok like that.

All the best

Dave

[Gellytroch]

Ashley,

I do have another 2 window boxes on another sill and I swap the plants round a bit at flowering time as they come into flower. Between the marginata's, pubescens' and the auriculas they give great colour from early March right into May.

Dave.

[Gellytroch]

Ashley

These are my 'change-out' boxes, if you know what I mean!

Dave

[Roma]

A lovely splash of colour, Dave.  I must start looking after my primulas better.

[Roma]

Primula not 'Blairside Yellow'.



An unnamed hybrid from Primula 'Rumbling Bridge Strain'



I pricked out some self sown seedlings from pots neighbouring this plant.  (There were no other primulas nearby).  All the seedlings which have flowered are a reddish purple shade.

 

[Gellytroch]

Really lovely and interesting plants Roma. You've inspired me to collect seed and grow some new plants myself!

Have a good growing year

Dave 

[ashley]

These are my 'change-out' boxes, if you know what I mean!

All looking very good Dave.  It seems an excellent way to grow and display them

Those are lovely plants Roma.

[Gellytroch]

That yellow Rumbling Bridge hybrid looks as though it would be highly scented Roma?  Great leaf colour too!