Primula 2014

[Lesley Cox]

Love the 'Mauve Mist,'  if it's really that colour.

[Gerdk]

Here is Primula marginata with a pronounced margin

Gerd

[Martin Baxendale]

I have high hopes that among the many vulgaris and juliana type primroses from my Barnhaven seedlings, there will be some like 'Barn Hall Blue.' An Australian friend has one too, called 'Blue Ribbon,' a wonderful mat-forming plant, covered with a sheet of clean blue when I saw it.

Would that be the old juliana cultivar 'Blue Riband', Lesley? It's a beauty but I haven't seen it for sale anywhere in the UK for many years now. I wonder if it's still around here somewhere or only now surviving in NZ. I used it a lot for crossing when I used to raise juliana seedlings. It gave me some lovely results crossed with the likes of 'Wanda' and 'Tawny Port'.

There are some pics on the web if you google it.

[Jane]

Here are couple more Primula's looking good at the moment:
Primula 'Kinlough Beauty' a real favourite mine with the amount of flowers it produces.
Primula vulgaris 'Drumcliff' I just love the dark leaves with the pale flowers, it will be interesting to see if it sets seed!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It is Lesley, it is !! 

[johnstephen29]

Hi jane I really like your primula's especially drumcliffe, is that one one of the irish primroses?

[Jane]

Hi John, yes it is.  I'm hoping that they set seed for me as it will be interesting to see the foliage and flower colour that emerges.  I would love to add some more of them to my garden.  Do you grow any of them?

[Michael J Campbell]

Primula auricula Blue Night.
Primula auricula Blue Wave.
Primula auricula Tmpany Seedling.
Primula auricula Tmpany Seedling.
Primula auricula  Sonia Nicholle  x Yellow.

[ChrisB]

Love that solid yellow Michael.  One of Susan's...

[Mike Ireland]

Primula juliae
Primula warshenewskiana

[Roma]

Primrose 'Hallbarn Blue'
? Primula 'Wanda'
Primula 'Tipperary Purple'  an old Jack in the Green
Primula allionii x 'Blairside Yellow' from Lismore many years ago

[johnstephen29]

Hi Jane no unfortunately, but I do love drumcliffe's dark leaves so different to other primroses

[Roma]

Change of colour now - Primula elatior
The first two are Primula elatior from seed a few years ago as Primula alpicola
The third was supposed to be Primula rotundifolia from wild collected seed

[Roma]

Primula allionii 'Aire Mist'
A pale coloured Auricula from Rumbling Bridge Nursery

[ChrisB]

Interesting plant that last one Roma.  Trying to figure out what the cross must have been..